A Method for Seasonally Adjusting Time Series With Variation in the Seasonal Amplitude

The official seasonally adjusted figures of the unemployment series in the Netherlands proved to be unsatisfactory in the years 1976 until 1980 because of the occurrence of a residual seasonal pattern in the adjusted series. There is indication that this failure is due to the presence of variations in the seasonal amplitude of the unemployment series. To improve this unsatisfactory state of affairs further research on methods of seasonal adjustment was undertaken at the Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics. The outcome, method CPBX11, combines features of two methods that have been used officially, CENSUS X-11 and CPB-1. Since December 1980 the Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics has used CPBX11 to compute seasonally adjusted labor market series. In this article we review in short the literature on seasonal adjustment and compare the performance of the three procedures referred to above in adjusting the series Unemployment in Construction and Live Births (per 1,000 of the mean population) for the Netherlands. The CPBX11 method yields more satisfactory results, especially for the first series.     

季节异方差序列的季节调整问题研究

季节调整是从经济序列中剔除季节成分的重要方法。季节异方差的存在,使经典的季节调整方法无法彻底分离出季节成分,致使季节调整失败。本文针对季节异方差问题提出用于季节调整的改进的HS模型,并定义改进的HS模型构造季节异方差检验LR统计量,通过蒙特卡洛模拟方法分析该检验的检验尺度和检验功效。最后,利用我国税收总额月度序列给出实证分析,并通过对比考察了改进的HS模型方法季节调整的有效性。     

中国季度GDP的季节调整：结构时间序列方法

 内容提要：本文利用结构时间序列方法讨论了中国季度GDP的季节调整问题,从季节单位根、季节自相关、周期自相关等多个方面对不同季节模式的调整结果进行了比较。结论认为,随机虚拟变量形式和三角函数形式得到的调整结果非常相似;结构时间序列方法更好地捕捉到了时变季节特征,明显优于X-11和SEATS方法;非高斯稳健季节调整的结果表明,高斯结构时间序列方法具有较好的稳定性。     

基于平衡轮换样本调查的季节调整方法研究

传统季节调整方法对时间序列数据进行季节调整时,往往假定误差项为白噪声,不考虑其序列相关关系。为了进行更准确地季节调整分析,本文从连续性抽样调查的角度出发,研究基于平衡轮换样本调查的抽样误差对季节调整的影响,建立一般化的季节调整模型,利用卡尔曼滤波进行参数估计,并从预测误差、误差方差等角度评价模型精度。最后以中国城镇住户调查采用的12～0平衡轮换模式为例,对考虑抽样误差结构特征的季节调整模型进行实证分析,验证这套季节调整方法的有效性。     

The Prediction of Time Series With Trends and Seasonalities

A maximization of the expected entropy of the predictive distribution interpretation of Akaike's minimum AIC procedure is exploited for the modeling and prediction of time series with trend and seasonal mean value functions and stationary covariances. The AIC criterion best one-step-ahead and best twelve-step-ahead prediction models can be different. The different models exhibit the relative optimality properties for which they were designed. The results are related to open questions on optimal trend estimation and optimal seasonal adjustment of time series.     

Issues Involved With the Seasonal Adjustment of Economic Time Series

In the first part of this article, we briefly review the history of seasonal adjustment and statistical time series analysis in order to understand why seasonal adjustment methods have evolved into their present form. This review provides insight into some of the problems that must be addressed by seasonal adjustment procedures and points out that advances in modem time series analysis raise the question of whether seasonal adjustment should be performed at all. This in turn leads to a discussion in the second part of issues involved in seasonal adjustment. We state our opinions about the issues raised and review some of the work of other authors. First, we comment on reasons that have been given for doing seasonal adjustment and suggest a new possible justification. We then emphasize the need to define precisely the seasonal and nonseasonal components and offer our definitions. Finally, we discuss criteria for evaluating seasonal adjustments. We contend that proposed criteria based on empirical comparisons of estimated components are of little value and suggest that seasonal adjustment methods should be evaluated based on whether they are consistent with the information in the observed data. This idea is illustrated with an example.     

Issues Involved With the Seasonal Adjustment of Economic Time Series

In the first part of this article, we briefly review the history of seasonal adjustment and statistical time series analysis in order to understand why seasonal adjustment methods have evolved into their present form. This review provides insight into some of the problems that must be addressed by seasonal adjustment procedures and points out that advances in modern time series analysis raise the question of whether seasonal adjustment should be performed at all. This in turn leads to a discussion in the second part of issues invloved in seasonal adjustment. We state our opinions about the issues raised and renew some of the work of our authors. First, we comment on reasons that have been given for doing seasonal adjustment and suggest a new possible justification. We then emphasize the need to define precisely the seasonal and nonseasonal components and offer our definitions. Finally, we discuss our criteria for evaluating seasonal adjustments. We contend that proposed criteria based on empirical comparisons of estimated components are of little value and suggest that seasonal adjustment methods should be evaluated based on whether they are consistent with the information in the observed data. This idea is illustrated with an example.     

基于季节调整技术的我国物价波动实证研究

 本文首先对季节调整方法的发展及应用进行说明,并对X-12-ARIMA和TRAMO/SEATS进行方法与实证比较,得出这两种方法调整效果基本相同;其次使用X-12-ARIMA方法对我国CPI时间序列数据做了实证研究,分离出最终趋势成分、季节成分等;然后通过PBC版X-12-ARIMA分理处时间序列中的春节因素;最后通过调整后的CPI序列进行短期预测,并对其展开了一定的分析讨论。     

The Modeling and Seasonal Adjustment of Weekly Observations

Several important economic time series are recorded on a particular day every week. Seasonal adjustment of such series is difficult because the number of weeks varies between 52 and 53 and the position of the recording day changes from year to year. In addition certain festivals, most notably Easter, take place at different times according to the year. This article presents a solution to problems of this kind by setting up a structural time series model that allows the seasonal pattern to evolve over time and enables trend extraction and seasonal adjustment to be carried out by means of state-space filtering and smoothing algorithms. The method is illustrated with a Bank of England series on the money supply.     

Multivariate Seasonal Adjustment,Economic Identities,and Seasonal Taxonomy

This article extends the methodology for multivariate seasonal adjustment by exploring the statistical modeling of seasonality jointly across multiple time series, using latent dynamic factor models fitted using maximum likelihood estimation. Signal extraction methods for the series then allow us to calculate a model-based seasonal adjustment. We emphasize several facets of our analysis: (i) we quantify the efficiency gain in multivariate signal extraction versus univariate approaches; (ii) we address the problem of the preservation of economic identities; (iii) we describe a foray into seasonal taxonomy via the device of seasonal co-integration rank. These contributions are developed through two empirical studies of aggregate U.S. retail trade series and U.S. regional housing starts. Our analysis identifies different seasonal subcomponents that are able to capture the transition from prerecession to postrecession seasonal patterns. We also address the topic of indirect seasonal adjustment by analyzing the regional aggregate series. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.     

季节调整新方法及其原理研究

本文的主要工作是从频域的角度对季节调整中“季节滤子”的设计及估计问题进行研究。通过将直接信号提取（DSEF）方法引入到季节调整的应用之中,突破现有季节调整方法中仅能处理季度或月度数据的限制,且该方法下季节调整后的序列是理论季节调整后序列的“均方误差”最小估计。将DSEF方法应用于对中国季度进出口总额序列的季节调整分析中。分析结果显示,相比于X-11和SEATS方法,DSEF方法季节调整结果的离差较小且稳健性较好。     

Decomposition of Seasonality and Long‐term Trend in Seismological Data: A Bayesian Modelling of Earthquake Detection Capability

This study demonstrates the decomposition of seasonality and long‐term trend in seismological data observed at irregular time intervals. The decomposition was applied to the estimation of earthquake detection capability using cubic B‐splines and a Bayesian approach, which is similar to the seasonal adjustment model frequently used to analyse economic time‐series data. We employed numerical simulation to verify the method and then applied it to real earthquake datasets obtained in and around the northern Honshu island, Japan. With this approach, we obtained the seasonality of the detection capability related to the annual variation of wind speed and the long‐term trend corresponding to the recent improvement of the seismic network in the studied region.     

Modelling seasonally varying data: A case study for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

Many time series are measured monthly, either as averages or totals, and such data often exhibit seasonal variability – the values of the series are consistently larger for some months of the year than for others. A typical series of this type is the number of deaths each month attributed to SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). Seasonality can be modelled in a number of ways. This paper describes and discusses various methods for modelling seasonality in SIDS data, though much of the discussion is relevant to other seasonally varying data. There are two main approaches, either fitting a circular probability distribution to the data, or using regression-based techniques to model the mean seasonal behaviour. Both are discussed in this paper.     

Spectral properties of the concurrent and forecasting seasonal linear filters of the X-11-ARIMA method

This study analyzes the properties of the linear filters of the X-11-ARIMA seasonal adjustment method applied for current seasonal adjustment. It provides the general formula for the combined weights that result from the ARIMA model extrapolation filters with the X-11 seasonal-adjustment filters. The three cases studied correspond to the three ARIMA models automatically tested by the X-11-ARIMA program, namely, (0, 1, 1)(0, 1, 1), (0, 2, 2)(0, 1, 1), and (2, 1. 2)(0, 1,1). The parameter values chosen reflect different degrees of flexibility of the trend-cycle and seasonal components. It is shown that the X-11-ARIMA linear filters for current seasonal adjustment are very flexible; they change with both the ARIMA extrapolation model and its parameter values, contrary to those of the X-11 program, which are fixed for a given set of options.     

Seasonal Adjustment Using Structural Time Series Models: An Application and a Comparison With the Census X-11 Method

This article makes the method of seasonal adjustment operational using suitable structural time series models (STM). This so-called STM method is applied to several relevant Dutch macro- economic quarterly and monthly time series. The results are compared with those of the Census X-11 method using several formal criteria as yardsticks. The STM method proves to compete well with the Census X-11 method in this respect.     

A Survey of Recent Developments in Seasonal Adjustment

In recent years there have been notable advances in the methodology for analyzing seasonal time series. This paper summarizes some recent research on seasonal adjustment problems and procedures. Included are signal-extraction methods based on autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models, improvements in X–11, revisions in preliminary seasonal factors, regression and other model-based methods, robust methods, seasonal model identification, aggregation, interrelating seasonally adjusted series, and causal approaches to seasonal adjustment.     

The Surrogate Henderson Filters in X-11

This paper explains the surrogate Henderson filters that are used in the X-11 variant of the Census Method II seasonal adjustment program to obtain trends at the ends of time series. It describes a prediction interpretation for these surrogate filters, justifies an approximation to the filters, proposed by Kenny & Durbin (1982), and proposes a further interpretation of the results. The starting point for the paper is unpublished work by Musgrave (1964a, 1964b). His work has continuing relevance to current seasonal adjustment practice. This paper makes that work generally available for the first time, and reviews and extends it.     

Seasonal Adjustment of Time Series Using One-Sided Filters

This article presents a model-based signal extraction seasonal adjustment procedure to extract estimates of the independent unobserved seasonal and nonseasonal components from an observed time series. The decomposition yields a one-sided filter that is optimal for adjusting the most recent observation under the assumption of using only the past observed series. Some advantages of this procedure are that no forecasts are required for implementation and there are no problems of revision of estimates or questions of concurrent adjustment. Comparisons are made with existing procedures using two-sided filters.     

基于频域的X-13ARIMA-SEATS季节调整过滤器诊断

本文从频域角度对X-13ARIMA-SEATS季节调整程序的对称和并行过滤器进行研究,考察不同的模型非季节和季节移动平均参数和不同过滤器长度对平方增益函数和相位延迟函数的影响,并以中国采购经理人指数（PMI）和居民消费价格指数（CPI）季节序列诊断为例,从频域角度比较X-11和以ARIMA为基础的（AMB）方法的平方增益函数和相位延迟函数来选择更优的季节调整方法。得出的结论：①非季节移动平均参数增大时,两种过滤器平方增益函数有下降趋势,季节移动平均参数增大时,平方增益函数有上升趋势。长度较短的过滤器波动更剧烈,季节频率上波谷宽度更宽;②季节移动平均参数越大时,相位延迟函数震荡越剧烈,非季节移动平均参数越大时,季节频率上的相位延迟增大。单个非季节频率区间内相位延迟函数与平方增益函数有反向关系;③AMB方法在非季节频率区间上的增益函数比X-11方法更趋于1,过滤器的凹槽比X-11方法更窄,且频率分量的相位失真更小,在PMI季节调整中更好;X-11方法对称过滤器的平方增益函数更小且更趋于1,在非频率区间上的相位延迟函数比AMB方法更小,更适用CPI的季节调整。④与传统季节调整质量诊断相比,频域诊断在估计季节成分的稳定性和过滤器的延迟特性方面具有优势,在季节调整方法选择时可综合两方面的结论。     

Highs and lows: Some properties of the extremes of a diffusion and applications in finance

Observations on security prices, currency exchange rates, interest rates, and other financial time series usually include not only an open and close, but also a high and low price for the period. For Brown‐ian motion and certain diffusion processes, the information on high and low prices is of considerable value, particularly for estimating volatility, correlations between processes, and in the pricing of look‐back and barrier options. For pricing more general derivatives, this information is useful to the extent that change in volatility is an important ingredient in the price. The author gives a simple geometric device for generating the extremes of Brownian motion, and geometric Brownian motion; he then uses these extremes in the estimation of the volatility of the processes and to study survivorship bias.