Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate

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Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate

A rate used to reduce seasonal noise on a company's sales or revenue information. For example, many retail companies tend to have higher sales figures at the end of the calendar year because of the holiday season. Comparing the raw data may make the company's sales look better than they are. The SAAR is designed to even out that trend. It is calculated by taking the raw annual rate for a given month and dividing by a seasonality factor.

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* Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers stores' sales increased 0.3% seasonally-adjusted month-to-month and 3.2% unadjusted year-over-year.

Retail sales rebound slightly in February

Seasonally-adjusted, industrial production went up by 4.5% in June.

Serbia's exports rose 6% and imports 4.1%

Nevertheless, the seasonally-adjusted jobless total -- which irons out seasonal fluctuations -- increased by 21,000 the agency said, faster than analysts' expectations.

German unemployment rises in May

In seasonally-adjusted terms, economists had expected a contraction of 5.1% on an annual basis and said the latest data correspond to a seasonally-adjusted contraction of around 4.8%-5%.

Greece's Economy Contracts by 6.9% in a Year

5 August 2011 - Norway's manufacturing output went down 1.5% month-on-month in June 2011, according to seasonally-adjusted figures published by Statistics Norway today.

-Norway's Jun industrial production declines 1.5% M/M

Bureau of Labor Statistics does not release the seasonally-adjusted number of marginally attached workers so the reported number is not seasonally adjusted.

Unemployment on the upswing

Note that ISM has revised its seasonally-adjusted PMI readings for 2003.

NACM credit manager's index: report for November 2004

INDUSTRIAL production for the three months ending in June was down 0.5 per cent from the previous period, according to seasonally-adjusted figures from the Central Statistics Office.

Sorted and the City: Industrial production down

6 May 2011 - Norway's manufacturing output went up 0.9% month-on-month in March 2011, according to seasonally-adjusted figures published by Statistics Norway today.

-Norway's Mar 2011 industrial output grows 0.9% M/M

7 April 2011 - Norway's manufacturing output edged down 0.3% month-on-month in February 2011, according to seasonally-adjusted figures published by Statistics Norway today.