Predicting unemployment rates in Indonesia

The main purpose of this study is to predict the unemployment rate in Indonesia by using time series data from 1986 to 2015 using autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA). A differencing process is required due to the actual time series of the unemployment rates in Indonesia is non-stationa...

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Main Author: Umi Mahmudah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Islam Indonesia 2017-03-01
Series:Economic Journal of Emerging Markets
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Online Access:https://jurnal.uii.ac.id/JEP/article/view/7090
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description The main purpose of this study is to predict the unemployment rate in Indonesia by using time series data from 1986 to 2015 using autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA). A differencing process is required due to the actual time series of the unemployment rates in Indonesia is non-stationary. The results show that the best model for forecasting the unemployment rate in Indonesia by using the ARIMA (0,2,1) model. The forecasting results reveal that the unemployment rate in Indonesia tends to decrease continuously. The average of the residuals is close to zero which informs a good result of the forecasting analysis.
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spelling doaj.art-6917bf2de96a4d539a96584dd812efbf2023-12-29T06:55:53ZengUniversitas Islam IndonesiaEconomic Journal of Emerging Markets2086-31282502-180X2017-03-0191Predicting unemployment rates in IndonesiaUmi Mahmudah0School of Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu The main purpose of this study is to predict the unemployment rate in Indonesia by using time series data from 1986 to 2015 using autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA). A differencing process is required due to the actual time series of the unemployment rates in Indonesia is non-stationary. The results show that the best model for forecasting the unemployment rate in Indonesia by using the ARIMA (0,2,1) model. The forecasting results reveal that the unemployment rate in Indonesia tends to decrease continuously. The average of the residuals is close to zero which informs a good result of the forecasting analysis. https://jurnal.uii.ac.id/JEP/article/view/7090ForecastingUnemployment rateARIMA
spellingShingle Umi Mahmudah
Predicting unemployment rates in Indonesia
Economic Journal of Emerging Markets
Forecasting
Unemployment rate
ARIMA
title Predicting unemployment rates in Indonesia
title_full Predicting unemployment rates in Indonesia
title_fullStr Predicting unemployment rates in Indonesia
title_full_unstemmed Predicting unemployment rates in Indonesia
title_short Predicting unemployment rates in Indonesia
title_sort predicting unemployment rates in indonesia
topic Forecasting
Unemployment rate
ARIMA
url https://jurnal.uii.ac.id/JEP/article/view/7090
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