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.

Ah! Thank you! Using your hint I worked up the below: genr emplabadj = deseas(emplab, X) Which does exactly what I needed. Now, on to figure out batch files... Thanks again. On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza <ignacio.diaz-emparanza(a)ehu.es&gt; wrote: > > El 21/09/11 06:24, Patrick Kallerman escribió: > > 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. > > > > > Please, have a look to the function 'deseas' in the gretl manual or in > the gretl help (Function reference). > > > -- > Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza > DEPARTAMENTO DE ECONOMÍA APLICADA III (ECONOMETRÍA Y ESTADÍSTICA) > UPV/EHU Avda. Lehendakari Aguirre, 83 | 48015 BILBAO > T.: +34 946013732 | F.: +34 946013754 > www.ea3.ehu.es > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-users mailing list > Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu > http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users