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Back How seasonal adjustment can affect the message delivered to policy makers


This paper shows how the choice of alternative methods for seasonal adjustment and for the estimation of missing countries can significantly affect the message delivered to the users of statistics and especially policy makers and media.

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Release date: 30 September 2016

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Product code: KS-TC-16-017
ISBN 978-92-79-61502-3
ISSN 2315-0807
doi:10.2785/97296
Theme: Economy and finance
Collection: Statistical working papers