Seasonal Rate

jackson User Posts: 3 Joined: 06/11/2011	#1 08/11/2011 17:27 What is seasonal adjusted rate and which industeries can use them? please also tell that whether they are used only hypothetically or real?

Muhammad Zargham Haider User Posts: 32 Joined: 27/09/2011	#2 10/11/2011 07:42 It is a rate adjustment used for economic or business data that attempts to remove the seasonal variations in the data. Most data will be affected by the time of the year. Adjusting for the seasonality in data means more accurate relative comparisons can be drawn from month to month all year.

pattie User Posts: 2 Joined: 11/11/2011	#3 11/11/2011 04:09 this rate is often used for seasonal industeries like icecream, cold drinks

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