Seasonal Adjustment Center of Excellence SACE SAUG Status

Seasonal Adjustment Center of Excellence SACE & SAUG: Status Report Frankfurt - March 15 th, 2018 SACE 1

Outline • Quick report on achieved and ongoing tasks § § § SACE News from the team; JD+, Downloads and issues; Helpdesk, Assistance; Trainings, conferences; Plug-Ins. 2

Composition SACE/SAUG • Members § SACE: Insee, Istat, ONS, INE Portugal, CBS Latvia, NBB, 2 IE; § SAUG: 9 NSIs at the beginning (Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain) • Partners § IMF, Eurostat, Bundesbank, OECD • Observers § SACE members SAUG 15 March 2018, Frankfurt Main - SAEG Meeting 3

News from the Team • SACE § Out: Jennie Davies (ONS), Ivars Getins (CBS Latvia) § In: Valérie Mathey (Insee), Alain Quartier la tente (Insee), Vents Valle (CBS Latvia), Gian. Luigi Mazzi (IE), Australian Bureau of Statistics, Stat. Can will participate to the next meeting. § Regina Soares (INE) on medical leave since June • SAUG § Finland: Henri Luomaranta replaced Lauri Saarinen § Hungary: Mária Katalin Pécs replaced Gabor Lovics § New members: Croatia, Germany, Ireland, Turkey SACE 4

A “problem” • Total number of SAUG: > 30 High interest and large community Efficiency of physical meetings, task sharing etc. SAUG 15 March 2018, Frankfurt Main - SAEG Meeting 5

Activities SAUG • Testing JDemetra+ v. 2. 2. 0 (and v. 2. 2. 1) • User requirements: proposals for improvements (many issues on Git. Hub opened by SAUG members) • Presenting, testing and monitoring the development of new plug-ins: Spec. Parser, Trans. Reg, Con. Cur, Excel. Adapter etc. • Communication, promotion and implementation of JD+ in NSI/NB SAUG 15 March 2018, Frankfurt Main - SAEG Meeting 6

Proposed future tasks SAUG • Restructuring the way of working, meetings, virtual networking to gain efficiency • Contributions to documentation (wiki) § Gifs and/or videos, User cases, Proofreading • User requirements and testing further plug-ins • User Requirements for JD+ 3. x SAUG 15 March 2018, Frankfurt Main - SAEG Meeting 7

Helpdesk • Still quite active. Move on Gmail. • Some statistics as of 26/02/2018 § 210 “real” questions, 2 still pending § 70 institutes SACE 8

Who is using JD+? • A difficult question: Git. Hub downloads are anonymous • Helpdesk SACE 9

Who is using JD+? • Latvia, Ireland, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Malta, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Romania, Cyprus, Austria, Denmark, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey • But many other users: Australia, Algeria, Botswana, Cameroon, Maroc, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia, UEMOA, ECB, Eurostat, IMF etc. SACE 10

JDemetra+ • JD 2. 2 released on July 11 th (on Git. Hub) • Regular monitoring of: § Requests / Commits § Downloads (a program is run every day) • Downloads (as of 12/03/2018): § JD+ 2. 0: 2962 § JD+ 2. 1: 3506 § JD+ 2. 2: 3196 SACE 11

Downloads SACE 12

Issues (1) • Opening of the Git. Hub page dedicated to JDemetra+ (version 1. 5. 4) on December 18 th, 2014 • Since, a total of 694 issues have been opened out of which 611 (88. 0%) have been closed and 83 are still open. SACE 13

Issues (2) SACE 14

Training, Coaching • SACE members and partners are very active trainers. • Regular monitoring of the trainings done with JD+ (INE in charge). • Recent examples: Australia (ABS), South Africa (Stats SA) • IMF uses JD+ for trainings SACE 15

Plug-Ins • • Huge work on the link R-JD+ (NBB) Testing the Revision Plug-In (ONS) SA quality report: selection of indicators; High Frequencies: First methodological works. Need to adapt JD+ to these frequencies. Firsts Java routines are available for TS, STL, X 12 and SSM (NBB). SACE 16

Conferences • June 2017: Seminar at the ABS (moving TD effects, JD+). • June 2017: ISF conference, presentation of first results on high frequencies • July 2017: ISI conference. Session on Calendar Effects ( Hegire calendar); Session on JD+. • August 2017: JSM conference, presentation of new results on SA of weekly and daily data. • December 2017: CFE-ERCIM conference, presentation of results on high frequencies SACE 17