Workshop on Seasonal Adjustment of Economic Time Series with Demetra+
Date: 19-06-2013
The workshop on Seasonal Adjustment of Economic Time Series with Demetra+ organized by the Department of Statistics in cooperation with the International Department, took place on 17-19 June 2013 at the NBP Head Office in Warsaw.
13 representatives from 11 central banks (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Macedonia, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Tunisia, Ukraine) took part in the event conducted by Ms Sylwia Grudkowska - Economic Expert from the NBP Department of Statistics.
The workshop, conducted in English with simultaneous translation into Russian, was a platform to discuss the theoretical concepts and the practical problems of seasonal adjustment. It focused on the two most commonly used seasonal adjustment methods, i.e. TRAMO/SEATS and X-12-ARIMA and included useful practical recommendations. The workshop aimed to introduce the participants to the main features of recently developed seasonal adjustment software, namely Demetra+ and JDemetra+, and to enable them to take advantage of this powerful tools in a daily work.
We would like to thank all the participants for their active participation.