Version 8.18 (February 28th, 2024)

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You can download IFs Version 8.18 at 8.18.

Interface Updates

• Fix to select 2 variables in longitudinal across time using groups. The problem actually was with variables that have special characters in their name like "%"
• Fix in Mortality Pyramid, Mental Health, Resp. Infections, and the 3 Totals by big categories were giving errors, only Females and Total.
• Presenting Regression Equation when using Groups in Cross-Sectional
• Fixes to Import Data Series: First issue, related to the order of years, making sure years are sorted. Second issue, logic is case sensitive, so it is possible that found countries are more than NR, since there could be some in uppercase and others in lowercase.
• Fixes to Vetting Form: Marking Differences was not working. Plot selected countries was giving an error.
• Fixes to Import Series: Long Format was resetting the Import File, removing anything else that was previously added.
• Fixes to Import Series: Enabled Aggregation Rule and Decimal places for existing variables.
• Changed Analog options for Poverty variables to use PIP data source.
• Handling Lags with definition of BaseYear, add the row BASEYEAR,2017 to the top of the sce file to define the scenario was created for a base year of 2017, and the first 2 years will be ignored when run in a version with 2019 as base year.

Model Updates

• Avoid having to add code when new tables are including for existing exogenous variables.
• Changed Initialization of Poverty variables to use PIP data source instead of WDI, which is supposed to include it. Fixes issue for Uzbekistan with data from 2003 (80%)

Data Updates

• Removed tmp tables for ifsHistSeries.db which were producing error when rebasing to 2021.
• TFRMIN was changed from 1.9 to 1.7 reducing significantly our forecast for Population.