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Activity Number: 96
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 7, 2006 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Business and Economics Statistics Section
Abstract - #306259
Title: Adjustment of Data from Period Reporters in Estimates of Monthly Retail Trade
Author(s): Donald Martin*+ and David Findley
Companies: U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau
Address: Statistical Research Division, Washington, DC, 20233,
Keywords: period reporters ; calendarization ; benchmarking
Abstract:

In this paper, we discuss the adjustment of data for four- or five-week periods collected by the Service Sector Statistics Division (SSSD) of the U.S. Census Bureau for the purpose of obtaining monthly estimates of retail trade. Properties of the present adjustment procedure used by SSSD are compared with those of three others: one that arises by allowing a variable in a model for deriving the present adjustment factor to take an alternative value, the calendarization method of Cholette and Chhab (1991), and a generalization of the latter procedure. The methods are applied to real and simulated data.

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