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The new motor vehicle sales series is one of ten statistical series making up the leading indicator developed by Statistics Canada for current economic analysis purposes.
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See Section 17 of the Statistics Act (Chapter 5-19), entitled «Secrecy».
3.
«A Note on the Seasonal adjustment of Economic Time Series», Canadian Statistical Review, August 1974.
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For more information, see X-12-ARIMA Reference Manual Version 0.3 (2007), U.S. Census Bureau.
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Ladiray, D. and Quenneville, B. (2001). Seasonal Adjustment with the X-11 Method. New York: Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Statistics #158.
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MCD = 4 for North American passenger cars. MCD = 3 for Overseas passenger cars. MCD = 12 for Commercial vehicles.