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Best linear unbiased disaggregation of annual GDP to quarterly figures: the case of Malaysia
✍ Scribed by Tilak Abeysinghe; Christopher Lee
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 149 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0277-6693
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✦ Synopsis
Long series of quarterly GDP ®gures are still not available for many countries. This paper suggests an empirical procedure adapted from to derive quarterly estimates from annual GDP ®gures and produces quarterly GDP by sectors for Malaysia from 1973Q1 onwards. A comparison of these estimates with some univariate interpolations using published quarterly ®gures for recent years show that the use of related series can produce substantially superior estimates of GDP compared to univariate methods. The data set is available from the authors.