Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Sergey Seleznev Author-Email: SeleznevSM@cbr.ru Author-Workplace-Name: Bank of Russia, Russian Federation Author-Name: Natalia Turdyeva Author-Email: TurdyevaNA@cbr.ru Author-Workplace-Name: Bank of Russia, Russian Federation Author-Name: Ramis Khabibullin Author-Email: KhabibullinRA@cbr.ru Author-Workplace-Name: Bank of Russia, Russian Federation Author-Name: Anna Tsvetkova Author-Email: TsvetkovaAN@cbr.ru Author-Workplace-Name: Bank of Russia, Russian Federation Title: Seasonal adjustment of the Bank of Russia Payment System financial flows data Abstract: This paper describes the seasonal adjustment algorithm used by the Bank of Russia to clean up data for ‘Monitoring of Sectoral Financial Flows’ weekly publication. We have developed a simple and fast procedure based on a set of trigonometric functions and dummy variables that demonstrates good results in terms of various quality metrics and can be easily modified for working with more flexible model specifications. Length: 22 pages Creation-Date: 2020-12 Revision-Date: Publication-Status: File-URL: https://www.cbr.ru/StaticHtml/File/117529/wp-65_e.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: Number:wps65 Classification-JEL: C11, C22, E32, E37. Keywords: daily seasonal adjustment, time series, sectoral financial flows, Bayesian estimator. Handle:RePEc:bkr:wpaper:wps65