'Seasonal adjustment is not a simple mechanical task'

However, undertaking seasonal adjustments is not a simple mechanical task that can be applied through a software programme

This is with reference to a piece that appeared in Business Standard on July 11, 2017, and a further comment related to that piece that appeared on November 14, 2017, by Mahesh Vyas (“In defence of estimates of job losses”). In that piece, he made two observations referring to me by name and it is important that a statistically correct position on these two issues is placed on record:

The basic issue of the July 11 piece and the comments on that thereafter are: Analysing CMIE data, Vyas claimed that there could have been as many as 1.5 million jobs lost