BV4.1 (software)
| BV4.1 | |
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| Developer | Federal Statistical Office of Germany |
| Stable release | 2.2
/ March 2017 |
| Operating system | Windows NT 4.0 / Windows 98 up to Windows XP |
| Available in | English, German |
| Type | Statistics / Statistical software / Time series analysis / Seasonal adjustment / Decomposing of time series |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | www |
BV4.1 is a retired[1] application software tool for decomposing and seasonally adjusting monthly or quarterly economic time series[2] by version 4.1 of the Berlin procedure developed by the Federal Statistical Office of Germany. The software is released as freeware for non-commercial purposes.
Features
The essential features of the BV4.1 software are:
- System requirements: Windows PC (Windows NT 4.0 / Windows 98 up to Windows XP).
- Support of the file formats Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, SQL Server and CSV.
- User-friendly graphical user interface.
- Analyses of monthly and quarterly time series.
- Possibility of mass production of time series decompositions and seasonal adjustments.
- Various possibilities of graphic evaluations of analysis results.
- Possibility to execute "successive analyses": analyses where the analysis spans are extended gradually by one additional period. This option is useful for examining such revisions of analysis results originating from the BV4.1 procedure itself.
References
- ^ "Methods - Seasonal adjustment". German Federal Statistical Office. Retrieved 2026-03-06.
- ^ "Software for time series analyses according to the BV4.1 method". German Federal Statistical Office. Retrieved 2024-01-05.