SACE: Status Report. Outline. Roma September 29 th, Quick report on achieved and ongoing tasks

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1 Seasonal Adjustment Center of Excellence SACE: Status Report Roma September 29 th, 2017 SACE 1 Outline Quick report on achieved and ongoing tasks News from the team; Follow up on the To do list ; JD+, Downloads and issues; Helpdesk, Assistance; Trainings, i conferences; Plug Ins; Budget follow up SACE 2 1

2 News from the Team INSEE, new members Valérie Mathey Alain Quartier de la tente Regina Soares (INE) on medical leave since June Gian Luigi Mazzi (observer) New observers (SAUG): Australia (ABS), Croatia (INS), Ireland (CSO) SACE 3 Follow up: To do list We are a bit late on some points. SACE 4 2

3 Helpdesk Still quite active. Move on Gmail. Some statistics as of 25/09/ real questions, 61 institutes SACE 5 Who is using JD+? A difficult question: Downloads are anonymous Helpdesk Latvia, Ireland, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Malta, Serbia, Macedonia, 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 etc. SACE 6 3

4 JDemetra+ JD 2.2 released on July 11 th (on GitHub) Regular monitoring of: Requests / Commits Downloads (a program is run every day) Downloads: JD+ 2.0: 2919 JD+ 2.1: 3443 JD+ 2.2: 751 SACE 7 Downloads SACE 8 4

5 Issues (1) Opening of the GitHub page dedicated to JDemetra+ (version 1.5.4) on December 18 th, 2014 Since, a total of 643 issues have been opened out of which 575 (89.4%) have been closed and 68 are still open. SACE 9 Issues (2) SACE 10 5

6 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 11 Plug Ins 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 (NBB) and SAS routines for X12 and SSM (INSEE). SACE 12 6

7 Conferences June 2017: Seminar at the Australian Bureau of Statistics (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. September 2017: SA Training at Stats South Africa SACE 13 Foreseen expenditures (1) Total budget of 830,000 co financed by Eurostat (54%) and SACE Members (46%) Each member has been pre financed SACE 14 7

8 Foreseen expenditures (2) Other costs: Hosting of meetings (coffee breaks) budget of all partners SAUG members reimbursement Insee budget Entry fees to conferences Insee budget Travel costs for trainings & seminars Insee budget SACE 15 Where we stand First year (in theory 33.33%) # Days: we are a bit under (20% against 33%) SACE 16 8

9 INSEE (Human resources) SACE 17 SAUG Huge problems to refund SAUG members (our sincere apologies) 5 institutes have been paid for the Brussels meeting; we do not know for Denmark, Romania and Slovakia (we asked for the payment but..). Budgeted: ; Cost: The difference could be used to finance other meetings: invitations to SAUG meetings, meeting in Frankfurt (Documentation), in Madrid (meeting with Agustin Maravall) etc. SACE 18 9