How the Eurostat data was retrieved (July 2021)

- Go to https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/national-accounts/data/database
- Select "Quarterly national accounts" -> "Basic breakdowns of main GDP aggregates and employment (by industry and asset) (namq_10_bbr)"
  Click on the "Data explorer" icon
- Make appropriate selections, by clicking on the "+" Icon next to the 6 dropdown menus
  > TIME: start in 1995Q1
  > Seasonal adjustment: Seasonally and calendar adjusted data
  > GEO: Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus, Malta, Croatia
  > NACE: Select all industries
  > Unit of measure: Chain linked volumes (2015), million euro
  > National Accounts Indicator: Value added, gross
- Download as csv files -> gives the files starting with "00_"
- Then manually add the "Quartnum" variable and save as xls -> gives the files starting with "01_"
  > The Quartnum variable will be used in Stata to properly define the data as quarterly data
  > Also manually add a SUBJECT variable that consists of the first for letters of the sector name
  > Also manually erase ":" entries in the value column
- Then continue with Stata do files