SAEG 7th June 2016 Item 4.1 Eurostat work programme 2016-2018: priority areas-future Centre of Excellence – expected deliverables By Dario Buono

Next CoE on SA 3-years, Eurostat financing up to 450k € Call closed in April 2016. To start in October 2016 Fields of activity Knowledge sharing Testing Support of SA practitioners Monitoring and reporting Plug-Ins Training, Coaching and Technical Assistance

Knowledge Sharing The SACE should promote knowledge sharing on the use of JDemetra+ libraries and plug-ins by means of documentation, tutorial and training International events: NTTS 2017 WSC 2017

Support for SA practitioners SA Helpdesk JDemetra+ user documentation User requirements SAUG

Testing The SACE should conduct tests of high-level JDemetra+ components in particular this work should focus on: The new core engine functionality of a common RegARIMA for data pre-treatment; Redundancy of seasonality tests

Monitoring and reporting The SACE should monitor: the progress of the JDemetra+ project and report to the SA Expert Group and Eurostat the progress within the ESS of the actual implementation of the ESS guidelines on SA

Plug-Ins The SACE should contribute to the development and testing of devoted plug-ins in order to: Perform temporal disaggregation and benchmarking; Produce Quality Reports on the seasonal adjustment process with inclusion of metadata according to ESMS structure; Analyse revisions and storage vintages; Deal with seasonality of weekly and daily data.

Training, coaching and technical assistance Delivering each year two 3-days trainings, for beginners and advanced users as part of the ESTP; Provide on-site consultancy sessions for SA practitioners;

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