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

2. 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.
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3. 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

4. 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
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
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5. 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

6. 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
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7. 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+
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8. International Conferences
To promote JD+
NTTS 2015 (Brussels, May 2015)
35th International Symposium on Forecasting (Riverside, June 21-24).
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9. 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

10. 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 (Trainers: BBk, NBB, Insee)
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11. 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”