1. SACE & SAUG: Status Report
Frankfurt - March 15th, 2018
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2. Outline Quick report on achieved and ongoing tasks News from the team;
JD+, Downloads and issues;
Helpdesk, Assistance;
Trainings, conferences;
Plug-Ins.
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3. Composition SACE/SAUG
Members
SACE: Insee, Istat, ONS, INE Portugal, CBS Latvia, NBB, 2 IE;
SAUG: 9 NSIs at the beginning (Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain)
Partners
IMF, Eurostat, Bundesbank, OECD
Observers
SACE members
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4. News from the Team SACE SAUG
Out: Jennie Davies (ONS), Ivars Getins (CBS Latvia)
In: Valérie Mathey (Insee), Alain Quartier la tente (Insee), Vents Valle (CBS Latvia), GianLuigi Mazzi (IE), Australian Bureau of Statistics, StatCan will participate to the next meeting.
Regina Soares (INE) on medical leave since June
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Finland: Henri Luomaranta replaced Lauri Saarinen
Hungary: Mária Katalin Pécs replaced Gabor Lovics
New members: Croatia, Germany, Ireland, Turkey
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5. 15 March 2018, Frankfurt Main - SAEG Meeting
A “problem”
Total number of SAUG: > 30
 High interest and large community
 Efficiency of physical meetings, task sharing etc.
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6. 15 March 2018, Frankfurt Main - SAEG Meeting
Activities SAUG
Testing JDemetra+ v (and v )
User requirements: proposals for improvements (many issues on GitHub opened by SAUG members)
Presenting, testing and monitoring the development of new plug-ins: SpecParser, TransReg, ConCur, ExcelAdapter etc.
Communication, promotion and implementation of JD+ in NSI/NB
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7. Proposed future tasks SAUG
Restructuring the way of working, meetings, virtual networking to gain efficiency
Contributions to documentation (wiki)
Gifs and/or videos, User cases, Proofreading
User requirements and testing further plug-ins
User Requirements for JD+ 3.x
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8. Helpdesk Still quite active. Move on Gmail.
Some statistics as of 26/02/2018
210 “real” questions, 2 still pending
70 institutes
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9. Who is using JD+? Helpdesk
A difficult question: GitHub downloads are anonymous
Helpdesk
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10. Who is using JD+?
Latvia, Ireland, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Malta, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Romania, Cyprus, Austria, Denmark, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey
But many other users: Australia, Algeria, Botswana, Cameroon, Maroc, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia, UEMOA, ECB, Eurostat, IMF etc.
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11. JDemetra+ JD 2.2 released on July 11th (on GitHub)
Regular monitoring of:
Requests / Commits
Downloads (a program is run every day)
Downloads (as of 12/03/2018):
JD+ 2.0: 2962
JD+ 2.1: 3506
JD+ 2.2: 3196
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12. Downloads
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13. Issues (1)
Opening of the GitHub page dedicated to JDemetra+ (version 1.5.4) on December 18th, 2014
Since, a total of 694 issues have been opened out of which 611 (88.0%) have been closed and 83 are still open.
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14. Issues (2)
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15. Training, Coaching SACE members and partners are very active trainers.
Regular monitoring of the trainings done with JD+ (INE in charge).
Recent examples: Australia (ABS), South Africa (Stats SA)
IMF uses JD+ for trainings
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16. Plug-Ins Huge work on the link R-JD+ (NBB)
Testing the Revision Plug-In (ONS)
SA quality report: selection of indicators;
High Frequencies: First methodological works. Need to adapt JD+ to these frequencies. Firsts Java routines are available for TS, STL, X12 and SSM (NBB).
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17. Conferences June 2017: Seminar at the ABS (moving TD effects, JD+).
June 2017: ISF conference, presentation of first results on high frequencies
July 2017: ISI conference. Session on Calendar Effects ( Hegire calendar); Session on JD+.
August 2017: JSM conference, presentation of new results on SA of weekly and daily data.
December 2017: CFE-ERCIM conference, presentation of results on high frequencies
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