The following examples will use the array object pop[c,s,t] which contains population data for North America by country, sex, and time where
c is the set country composed of: Canada, US, Mexico
s is the set sex composed of: male, female
t is the sequence time from 2000 to 2004
If the rowTitles parameter is set to off, the leftmost column must contain data. The import file may appear as follows:
! Canada male, Canada female !2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 10 12 14 16 18 12 14 16 18 20 ! US male, US female !2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 100 120 140 160 180 110 130 150 170 190 ! Mexico male, Mexico female !2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 18 20 22 24 26 20 22 24 26 28
If the rowTitles parameter is set to on, the leftmost column contains lables. The import file may appear as follows:
! Canada ! 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 male 10 12 14 16 18 female 12 14 16 18 20 ! US ! 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 male 100 120 140 160 180 female 110 130 150 170 190 ! Mexico ! 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 male 18 20 22 24 26 female 20 22 24 26 28
Note that in odometer format, the row titles do not have to match the element names of the indices.