A Filtering Method of Constructing Macro Consumption Index
摘要
We consider practical issues when we use monthly, quarterly, and annual macroeconomic time series that are published regularly with different frequencies by several government agencies in Japan. In order to address the issue with the multivariate economic time series, we apply the SIML filtering based on the range of time series that are non-stationary with seasonality and noise. We apply the SIML filtering method to construct macro consumption indicators using quarterly and monthly macro consumption series.