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2021 January 19-21 Introduction to Seasonal Adjustment and JDemetra+

 

ESTP course:

"Introduction to Seasonal Adjustment and JDemetra+"

Agenda

Location

Eurostat, Luxembourg, 19 - 21 January 2021, online training

Course Leader

Dario Buono (Eurostat, Methodology)

Lecturers

Andreas Dietrich (Bundesbank)

Véronique Elter (Statec)

Logistics

Francine KESSLER (Eurostat, Learning and Development)

Required Reading

ESS guidelines on seasonal adjustment (2015 edition)

Suggested Readings

JDemetra+ download and  documentation

19 of January 2021, Tuesday

09.30-10.00

Presentation of the course, tour de table

10.00-12.00

Introduction, the unobserved component model, basic concept of seasonal adjustment and step-by-step procedure

12.00-14.00

Lunch break

14.00-16.00

Using JDemetra+: getting familiar & first results

16.00-16.30

Question time for face-to face discussion with the trainers

 

20 of January 2021, Wednesday

10.00-12.00

Pre-treatment (outliers and calendar effects) & seasonal adjustment kernel (X-11 and SEATS)

12.00-14.00

Lunch break

14.00-16.00

Using JDemetra+: outliers & calendar adjustment

16.00-16.30

Question time for face-to face discussion with the trainers

21 of January 2021, Thursday

10.00-11.00

Quality assessment, miscellaneous issues, questions

11.00-11.15

coffee-break

11.15-12.30

Using JDemetra+: full exercise with MS series (breakout sessions)

12.30-14.00

Lunch break

14.00-15.30

Using JDemetra+: show and tell exercise with MS series
(by the participants!!)

15.30-16.00

Conclusions and evaluation of the course