1. Demetra+ User Manual Final release
Sylwia Grudkowska
NBP

2. Demetra+ User Manual – contents (1)
Basic information about Demetra+
Installing and uninstalling the software
Running and closing the application
Application’s windows
Workspace
Tools
X12 and TS Doc
Window menu

3. Demetra+ User Manual – contents (2)
X12 and TS specifications
options
parameters
Defining single-processing and multi-processing
X12 and TS results
interpretation on the results
description of tests
Regular data production
saving and refreshing results
changing the specification

4. Improvements made since last WG meeting
Description of output settings
Description of SI ratio
Some extension to X12 and TramoSeats specifications (td effects, Easter effect, user-defined regressors and others)
Description of seasonality tests (Kruscall-Walis, evaluative seasonality test, combined seasonality test)
Some explanations of TramoSeats output
Multi-processing - period to period data production
periodogram

5. Areas which could be extended
Detailed description of TRAMO/SEATS results:
decomposition
Wiener-Kolmogorow analysis
Multi-processing results menu
M-statistics

6. Possibile improvements
Comparison of Demetra+ and Demetra 2.2.
Documentations of Excel add-ins
Examples
data mass-production
improvement of problematic time series

7. Towards SA handbook (?) What should be included in the SA guide?
Overview of the SA method
Prior knowledge about the series
Interpretation on the results
Clear reference to ESS guideline on SA
Theoretical problems illustrated with step-by-step examples from Demetra+

8. Thank you!