SAUG and SACE: Status Report Point 2.3 SAEG Meeting – July 7th, 2015 SACE

Outline Quick report on what has already been achieved by SAUG and SACE JDemetra+, Documentation, Helpdesk, Assistance, Trainings etc. What is on the agendas of the 2 groups JDemetra+, Plug-ins, Training, studies etc. SACE

SAUG and SACE meetings, reports Intermediary report (first year of activity) released in April 2015; Last coordination meeting in Paris (19/05/2015) SAUG Last meeting in Paris (18/05/2015) All minutes, reports and documents available on the CROS portal SACE

What has been achieved? Release of JD+ 2.0.0 in February Long testing period by SACE and SAUG Complete documentation available (see next presentation by SG) Moving to JD+ 2.0.0 Already done or on-going in several institutes : INE Portugal, INSEE, STATEC, Eurostat (some units), TurkStat, Statistics Finland etc. Coaching : Statistics Denmark, ELSTAT, CSO Ireland SACE

Cooperation SAUG-SACE on JD+ Members of the 2 groups test JD+ and prepare (or did) the move to JD+. Some points raised by the SAUG: Seasonality Tests: Definition, Comparison AMI in JD+ Tramo: Parsimony of ARIMA models SACE

Helpdesk Very active Some statistics as of 10/06/2015 64 questions, 32 institutes 2 technical problems with JIRA: link broken and large delay in the answer for several cases. # of Posts Other Cases # of Cases # of Real Questions Institutes % Solved Average Duration 82 3 85 64 32 100.00 5.81 SACE

Training and Coaching Training at ELSTAT in February; coaching since. Working with Statistics Denmark (Karen Keller) to use JD+ through SAS Working with Irish CSO (Brian Cahill) to move to JD+ SACE

International Conferences To promote JD+ NTTS 2015 (Brussels, May 2015) 35th International Symposium on Forecasting (Riverside, June 21-24). SACE

On the Agenda (1) Ongoing improvement of the documentation Ongoing testing of JD+, Helpdesk Migration to JD+ SAUG will pilot a template on different institutes SA practices and plans. Using JD+ in production: various experiments Using the cruncher with SAS. Using JD+ modules with R. Using a web service. SACE

On the Agenda (2) Training for users Training for developers Lots of material from SACE members and partners. Synthesis and first draft for December. Training for developers Difficult task, impressive work from NBB and BBk First training for “new developers” scheduled in Eurostat September 15-17 (Trainers: BBk, NBB, Insee) SACE 10

On the Agenda (3) Plug-ins Difficult: need to “become a developer” First draft for governance of new Plug-ins available Ongoing tests on the Benchmarking plug-in (ONS leader) SAUG will propose a prioritized list of user requests First works on new Plug-ins: Output and Quality reporting (Insee – Istat) Calendar effects (Insee-NBB) Difficult: need to “become a developer”