> Hello,
>
> I'm a young practioner of economics and I've been trying to Seasonally
> Adjust a large number of datasets related to employment.
>
> Since I'm using a Mac, I've installed both gretl and the X-12 option.
> I'm fairly tech-savvy but hit a wall so I thought I'd ask for some help.
>
> Basically I have a dataset which includes the date, as "date", by month;
> and employment, as "emplab". If I open up the gretl UX I can easily
> Seasonally Adjust the data, save it to a .csv with a new variable and
> continue on. My problem lies in that I need to do this frequently, and
> as a batch. With this in mind I've been attempting to get X-12 to work
> with gretlcli in Terminal so that I could do things as a batch that way.
>
> My question is: Am I approaching this correctly? Is arima the correct
> command? I used "help arima" in gretlcli and didn't see an option to
> create a new variable for the SA data like the UX provides...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Patrick.
>