seasonally adjusted data

Seasonally adjusted data for the city were not available.

"This year the employment declines were much less than usual, making the seasonally adjusted data quite positive."

In the months before the quarter month, current and constant price not seasonally adjusted data by sector are published.

When should I use seasonally adjusted data?

By using seasonally adjusted data, some users find it easier to see the underlying trend in short-term price changes.

As a result of this process, seasonally adjusted data for January 2007 through November 2011 were subject to revision.

It is normal to report seasonally adjusted data for unemployment rates to reveal the underlying trends in labor markets.

Annual averages are available for Not Seasonally Adjusted data.

The resulting seasonally adjusted data are used, for example, when analyzing or reporting non-seasonal trends over durations rather longer than the seasonal period.

NOTE: Seasonally adjusted data have been revised to reflect updated seasonal adjustment factors.

German industrial output rose 1.3 percent in January from the year earlier, according to preliminary seasonally adjusted data released yesterday by the Economics Ministry.

Mr. Ehrenhalt based his analysis on seasonally adjusted data from joint Federal and state surveys from January through October.

The comptroller's office cannot muck around with the computer model that produces the seasonally adjusted data, he said, but it will be careful to interpret the data accurately.

Gerald F. Kotwas, an official, said that the Commerce Department was "looking into the possibility" of restoring publication of seasonally adjusted data but that no decision had been reached.

Already, the surplus may have hit bottom in April, based on monthly seasonally adjusted data, according to Mr. Feldman at Salomon Brothers, and since then, the surplus seems to be edging up.

However, we are exploring the possibility of issuing some seasonally adjusted data as well as actual numbers, and will do so as soon as we are confident they can be based on reliable adjustment factors.

Over all, the economy lost 331,000 jobs in November, according to the seasonally adjusted data released by the Labor Department, which also pushed up its estimate of job losses in October to 468,000, making that the worst month since 1974.

When a seasonally varying dependent variable is regressed on a seasonally varying independent variable to find the effect of the latter on the former, the use of seasonally adjusted data can result in biased coefficients.

Revised seasonally adjusted data for other major labor force series beginning in December 2010 appear in table B. An article describing the seasonal adjustment methodology for the household survey data and revised data for January 2011 through November 2011 is available at www.bls.gov/cps/cpsrs2012.pdf.