Seasonal Adjustment Center of Excellence SACE: Status Report London March 28 29 th, 2018 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
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), GianLuigi Mazzi (IE), Australian Bureau of Statistics, StatCan participates to this 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 2
Follow up: To do list We are a bit late on some points. But huge work done on HF data, JD+3. SACE 5 Helpdesk Still quite active. Move on Gmail. Some statistics as of 26/02/2018 210 real questions, 2 still pending 70 institutes SACE 6 3
Who is using JD+? A difficult question: GitHub downloads are anonymous Hld Helpdesk SACE 7 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 8 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 (asof12/03/2018): JD+ 2.0: 2962 JD+ 2.1: 3506 JD+ 2.2: 3196 SACE 9 Downloads SACE 10 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 11 Issues (2) SACE 12 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 13 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, STL and BSM (NBB) and SAS routines for X12 and BSM (INSEE). SACE 14 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 15 Communication on CROS SACE 16 8
SAUG page SACE 17 Reimbursement procedure What we expect : Detailed invoice (name, address, intracommunity VAT number & bank details) Supporting documents (original receipts, official document describing per diem) In case of per diem : no local transport As soon as possible!!!!!! SACE 18 9
New contact address Valérie Mathey Timbre L010 88, avenue de Verdier CS 70058 92541 Montrouge Cedex SACE 19 Foreseen expenditures (1) Total budget of 830,000 co financed by Eurostat (54%) and SACE Members (46%) Each member has been pre financed SACE 20 10
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 21 Where we stand: Human Resources SACE 22 11
Where we stand: Budget SACE 23 Where we stand: Budget SAUG SACE 24 12