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This paper discusses the present Australian Bureau of Statistics practice of smoothing various seasonally adjusted series that display highly volatile movements, the rationale behind the procedure employed and the qualifications associated with using such non-definitive estimates of trend-cycle behaviour.
Related to: Information Paper: Time Series Decomposition - An Overview (cat. no. 1317.0)
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