Working days series in Colombia: an application to industrial growth adjustment

While many economists are aware of the effect of workdays on production measures, it is common to find data being analyzed without adjustment. Generally, the number of workdays in a month changes from one year to the next. This is true for all months, not only for March and April which exhibit the l...

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Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
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industrial production
monthly manufacturing survey
working days
seasonality.
Producción industrial
DANE
estacionalidad. (Industrial production
seasonality)
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spelling 2014-09-222024-07-05T18:44:24Z2024-07-05T18:44:24Zhttps://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/cenes/article/view/290310.19053/22565779.2903https://repositorio.uptc.edu.co/handle/001/11884While many economists are aware of the effect of workdays on production measures, it is common to find data being analyzed without adjustment. Generally, the number of workdays in a month changes from one year to the next. This is true for all months, not only for March and April which exhibit the largest variations due to the Holy Week. This paper constructs a series of workdays, accounting for changes in holidays through time, and uses it to adjust industrial production data from DANE. Some months the difference between industrial growth reported by DANE and growth adjusted by workdays may reach 12 percentage points, positive or negative.Si bien muchos economistas son conscientes del efecto de los días hábiles sobre la medición de la producción, aún es frecuente encontrar que estas cifras se analizan sin el correspondiente ajuste. En general, el número de días hábiles en un mes cambia de un año a otro, lo cual es cierto para todos los meses, no solo para los que contienen la Semana Santa. Este trabajo recopila la serie de días hábile mensuales tomando en cuenta los festivos actuales y anteriores a la Ley Emiliani, y la utiliza para ajustar la serie de producción manufacturera del DANE. Para algunos meses, la diferencia entre la cifra de crecimiento industrial reportada por el DANE y la cifra ajustada por días hábiles puede acercarse a los 12 puntos porcentuales, en cualquier dirección.  application/pdfspaspaUniversidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombiahttps://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/cenes/article/view/2903/2640Copyright (c) 2014 Álvaro Montenegro Garcíahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf299http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Apuntes del Cenes; Volumen 33 N°57: enero - junio de 2014; 11-30Apuntes del Cenes; Volumen 33 N°57: enero - junio de 2014; 11-302256-57790120-3053industrial productionmonthly manufacturing surveyworking daysseasonality.Producción industrialDANEestacionalidad. (Industrial productionseasonality)Working days series in Colombia: an application to industrial growth adjustmentSeries de días hábiles en Colombia: una aplicación al ajuste del crecimiento industrialinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlePeer reviewed Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6798http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a382http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85García, Álvaro Montenegro001/11884oai:repositorio.uptc.edu.co:001/118842025-07-18 12:13:34.586metadata.onlyhttps://repositorio.uptc.edu.coRepositorio Institucional UPTCrepositorio.uptc@uptc.edu.co
dc.title.en-US.fl_str_mv Working days series in Colombia: an application to industrial growth adjustment
dc.title.es-ES.fl_str_mv Series de días hábiles en Colombia: una aplicación al ajuste del crecimiento industrial
title Working days series in Colombia: an application to industrial growth adjustment
spellingShingle Working days series in Colombia: an application to industrial growth adjustment
industrial production
monthly manufacturing survey
working days
seasonality.
Producción industrial
DANE
estacionalidad. (Industrial production
seasonality)
title_short Working days series in Colombia: an application to industrial growth adjustment
title_full Working days series in Colombia: an application to industrial growth adjustment
title_fullStr Working days series in Colombia: an application to industrial growth adjustment
title_full_unstemmed Working days series in Colombia: an application to industrial growth adjustment
title_sort Working days series in Colombia: an application to industrial growth adjustment
dc.subject.en-US.fl_str_mv industrial production
monthly manufacturing survey
working days
seasonality.
topic industrial production
monthly manufacturing survey
working days
seasonality.
Producción industrial
DANE
estacionalidad. (Industrial production
seasonality)
dc.subject.es-ES.fl_str_mv Producción industrial
DANE
estacionalidad. (Industrial production
seasonality)
description While many economists are aware of the effect of workdays on production measures, it is common to find data being analyzed without adjustment. Generally, the number of workdays in a month changes from one year to the next. This is true for all months, not only for March and April which exhibit the largest variations due to the Holy Week. This paper constructs a series of workdays, accounting for changes in holidays through time, and uses it to adjust industrial production data from DANE. Some months the difference between industrial growth reported by DANE and growth adjusted by workdays may reach 12 percentage points, positive or negative.
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