1316.0 - Information Paper: A Guide to Smoothing Time Series - Estimates of "Trend", 1987  
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 01/01/1987   
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This paper discusses the present Australian Bureau of Statistics practice of smoothing various seasonally adjusted series that display highly volatile movements, the rationale behind the procedure employed and the qualifications associated with using such non-definitive estimates of trend-cycle behaviour.

Related to: Information Paper: Time Series Decomposition - An Overview (cat. no. 1317.0)

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