XTIMPORTU: Stata module to import monthly, quarterly, half yearly or yearly time series and panel data as panelvar timevar valuevar from a supported file format to memory or a file
xtimportu imports long or wide (pivoted) monthly, quarterly half yearly or yearly time series and panel data from a supported file type using standard Stata import syntax, filtering cross sectional units with regular expressions (case sensitive! and encoding the matches (each match to a string, spaces are replaced with underscores "_" (if required) and returns long data as panelvar timevar valuevar to memory and/or to a file using standard Stata export and/or save syntax. Imported data are assumed to be wide if timevar is omitted.