Question 1
Essay
Go to FRED (the Federal Reserve Economic Database) and provide monthly seasonally adjusted and non-seasonally adjusted money supplies for China. Calculate (infer) the seasonal adjustment factor for China.
In the far right column, a figure above 1 suggests a "low seasonal month" in China and below 1 suggests a "high seasonal month."
DATE 1999−01−011999−02−011999−03−011999−04−011999−05−011999−06−011999−07−011999−08−011999−09−011999−10−011999−11−011999−12−012000−01−012000−02−01Seasonally Adjusted 10466917610816.510773870593377.010900612054468.210915295568646.811065882705659.811144176043978.911101204411429.711303259078393.211610407810821.611500985323408.311666640574758.111925988158627.512031793523227.112166968768808.2Not Seasonally Adjusted 10449850000000.00010550030000000.00010777840000000.00010843820000000.00010921830000000.00011006090000000.00011136350000000.00011141410000000.00011282700000000.00011507930000000.00011538960000000.00011655930000000.00011989790000000.00012122040000000.00012158300000000.000 Ratio of SA to NSA 0.9921220710.9996317071.0052372740.9994017091.0054326931.0007027480.9963913371.0018221771.0089049730.9967090041.0009188950.9946786520.9925551741.000712992 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