The

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BV4.1 is an easy-to-use tool for decomposing and seasonally adjusting monthly or quarterly economic

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by version 4.1 of the Berlin procedure. It is being developed by the

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. The software is released as

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for non-commercial purposes.

Features

The essential features of the BV4.1 software are: * System requirements: Windows PC ( Windows NT 4.0/

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+). * Support of the file formats Excel,

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, SQL Server and CSV. * User-friendly graphical user interface. * Analyses of monthly and quarterly time series. * Possibility of mass production of time series decompositions and seasonal adjustments. * Various possibilities of graphic evaluations of analysis results. * Possibility to execute so-called successive analyses, i.e. analyses where the analysis spans are extended gradually by one additional period. This option is useful for examining such revisions of analysis results originating from the BV4.1 procedure itself.

References

External links

Federal Statistical Office's BV4.1 page

Methodological information about the BV4.1 procedure
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