seasonal adjustment
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- noun
- /ˈsiːzənl əˈdʒʌstmənt/
- Specialized
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- The economists used seasonal adjustment to provide a clearer picture of the trends in employment data throughout the year.
Now, the Federal Reserve did tell us yesterday, January is the biggest month of the year for seasonal adjustments.
- Now, the Federal Reserve did tell us yesterday, January is the biggest month of the year for seasonal adjustments.
Examples
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Private-sector employment in New York State, which has kept pace with the rest of the country, increased by about 5,900 jobs last month, after seasonal adjustments, to an all-time high of 7.34 million, said Bohdan M. Wynnyk, deputy director of the department's Division of Research and Statistics.
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These numbers fluctuate more than the Government's numbers because the Government does seasonal adjustment, but Gallup does not.
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"But economists agree that seasonal adjustment is critical for month-to-month measurements, since there are seasonal factors that add noise to the data otherwise.
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If their estimation math for seasonal adjustment is off by even 10 or 20 percent, the number could have been 61,000 to 122,000 jobs higher.
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After calendar and seasonal adjustment, exports in fact decreased by 0.5% (and imports by 3.5%) month on month when compared with September.
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The net source of job growth was the 16-19 year-old cohort (even after seasonal adjustment that corrects for normal summer hiring).
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Volume, cash flow, and earnings are all factors that give CPG companies better insight as to how much money they will have for operations while factoring in variances such as seasonal adjustments, promotional labeling, and marketing to consumer demands.
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After applying seasonal adjustment, the data revealed a significant increase in consumer spending during the holiday season.
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To accurately analyze the company's quarterly sales, they implemented seasonal adjustment to account for fluctuations in demand.
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a modification to account for seasonal fluctuations' is directly and compositionally derived from 'seasonal' (relating to seasons or regular periods) and 'adjustment' (a change or correction). Although often used in a statistical context, the sense is transparent and follows a common noun+noun composition found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
Seasonal adjustment comes from the simple idea of changing numbers to remove effects that repeat every year. The word seasonal points to things like holidays or weather that make numbers go up and down, and adjustment is the small change we make so we can see the 'true trend' behind the regular rises and falls.