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Thanks for the advice, EnumaElish, this is a good suggestion. I do not (yet -- maybe if I just wait some more time ;) ) have T>K but I will try anyways, maybe I will get something interesting. PatrickI suggested to start with cluster analysis which is certainly a good idea as well...

Thanks EnumaElish & PatrickI. @EnumaElish the dataset is more like this: Period1 Period2 Period 3 ... Country1 11882 12835 ... Country2 4360 4573 ... Country3 2963 2778 ... Country4 16997 16125 ... Country5 4197 4301...

I have the following problem: Suppose there is a survey of persons with two properties each (a and b). a can take a relatively small number of values (say the political inclination: Conservative, Liberal, Socialist, or Other) the other one b can take a large number of values (say: the country...