H8: Technical Q&As page

Published on September 21, 2012

A new Technical Q&As page has been added to the H.8 release page on the Board's website. The first entry describes a change in the use of the Census Bureau's X-12-ARIMA program to seasonally adjust data on the H.8 Statistical Release.

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