Joint Eurostat – ECB
Seasonal Adjustment Expert Group Meeting
Tuesday, 7 June 2016 (09:30-17:00)
Room C2.03 , conference area, 2nd floor
Main Building, Sonnemannstrasse 22
60314 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1. APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA (09:30-09:40)
2. JDEMETRA 2.1+: FURTHER DEVELOPMENT AND DOCUMENTATION (09:40-11:00)
2.1 Latest features by the National Bank of Belgium
2.2 Latest features by the Deutsche Bundesbank
3. OFFICIAL RELEASE OF JDEMETRA+ AND ITS PLUG-IN: FOLLOW-UP (11:00-12:00)
3.1 Clarifications of the release procedure for JDemetra+ (open discussion)
3.2 Quality Report plug-in and availability of seasonal adjustment metadata (by INSEE)
4. SEASONAL ADJUSTMENT ROADMAP (12:00-12:30)
4.1 Eurostat work programme 2016-2018: priority areas-future Centre of Excellence – expected deliverables (by Eurostat)
Lunch break (12:30-13:30)
5. MIGRATION TO JDEMETRA+ (13:30 – 14:30)
5.1 Migration of NSIs and NCBs and usefulness of the roadmap for migration (open discussion)
5.2 Eurostat migration to JD+: state of the art (by Eurostat)
5.3 Report on migration to JD+ (by the ECB)
6. METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES (14:30 – 16:30)
6.1 Evolution of JDemetra+: JDemetra 2.2 and JDemetra+ 3.0 (NCB of Belgium)
6.2 A roadmap to address the discrepancies in the coding of seasonal and/or calendar adjusted series (by the ECB)
6.3 Use of trend-cycle series in official releases (by the ECB)
6.4 National calendars regressors (by the ECB)
7. POINTS FOR INFORMATION (16:30-16:45)
7.1 Handbook on Seasonal Adjustment (by Eurostat)
8. NEXT STEPS (16:45-17:00)
Date of the next meeting
9. ANY OTHER BUSINESS