DATA PRESENTATION AND SEASONAL ADJUSTMENT Background to work -

1. SHORT-TERM ECONOMIC STATISTICS EXPERT GROUP (STESEG) 28 – 30 JUNE 2004 • DATA PRESENTATION AND • SEASONAL ADJUSTMENT • Background to work -

2. DATA PRESENTATION AND SEASONAL ADJUSTMENT - Background to work - • Flowed out of 2002 STESEG meeting • Task force on data presentation &SA presented initial work at 2003 STESEG – covering 8 presentation issues • Focus of task force work on three of these – terminology; growth rates; presentation of seasonally adjusted data • Work incorporated into draft Data and Metadata Reporting and Presentation Manual

3. DATA PRESENTATION AND SEASONAL ADJUSTMENT Session overview and flow: • Analysis of comments received from national agencies and international organisations. [Denis Ward, OECD] • Discussion on comments received (except terminology, growth rates and seasonal adjustment) • Presentation on terminology [Denis Ward, OECD] • Discussion and conclusions • Presentationn on growth rates [Robert Kirchner, Bundesbank] • Discussion and conclusions • Presentation on presentation of SA data [Statistics Canada] • Discussion and conclusions

4. DATA PRESENTATION AND SEASONAL ADJUSTMENT • Session wrapup – final conclusions and recommendations • Future work on data presentation and seasonal adjustment • Future work on Manual

5. DATA PRESENTATION AND SEASONAL ADJUSTMENT - Data and Metadata Reporting & Presentation Manual - • Will be the focus of future work on data presentation and SA • Comments from STESEG will be incorporated into future version • Presented to CCSA (I/Os) in September • Revised version to be discussed at UNSC in March 2005 • Final version to be approved by OECD Statistics Committee in June 2005