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seasonal adjustment

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Noun1.seasonal adjustment - a statistical adjustment made to accommodate predictable fluctuations as a function of the season of the year; "seasonal adjustments for housing starts must be made in mid-winter"
allowance, adjustment - an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit"


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Such figure, after seasonal adjustment, for September rises to 6.
This was due to a seasonal adjustment issue: securities firms hired fewer summer interns so when the expected loss in intern employment was not found in the raw September data, the seasonal adjustment processed it as a gain.
In 1998, the PPI implemented the X-12-ARIMA Seasonal Adjustment Method; prior to that year, the PPI employed the X-11 method.
 
 
 
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