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Only data that would have been published by then are used: GDP up to month t−2 and LFS employment up to month t−1. The question is also whether a model that adds the more timely employment growth beats the naive forecast, which is gdp_yoy(t−2).\n\n## Data and exclusions\n- `data/canada_gdp_employment.csv`: 345 rows covering 1998-01 to 2026-09. These are current-vintage Statistics Canada series v65201210 (GDP) and v2062811 (LFS employment).\n- Checks: the monthly index has no gaps or duplicates. From 1999-01 onward, `gdp_yoy` and `emp_yoy` match a recomputation from the levels exactly. The 1998 yoy values are filled in, even though the README says the first 12 months are empty and the file has no 1997 levels. I kept them as given. GDP is missing for 2026-08 and 2026-09, which is expected because those months were not yet published.\n- Exclusion (decided before seeing any results): when estimating the model, I drop every training pair that spans any month from 2020-03 to 2021-12. 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The last estimation sample (origin 2026-04, h=3) contains 306 observations; the h=1 sample is slightly larger.\n\n## Uncertainty\n- **Diebold–Mariano tests** (squared-error loss, Newey–West variance with h−1 lags, Harvey–Leybourne–Newbold correction, t(47) reference):\n  - h=1: statistic 2.03, two-sided p = 0.048.\n  - h=3: statistic 1.65, p = 0.105.\n  - With only 48 overlapping origins from one post-COVID episode, the gains are therefore borderline evidence at h=1 and not statistically significant at the 5% level at h=3.\n- **Sensitivity to the COVID exclusion:** keeping the 2020–21 pairs in the training sample gives model RMSE 0.804 at h=1 (only 1% better than naive) and 0.794 at h=3 (better than the main specification). How large the gain is depends on how the pandemic period is handled. The direction, model beating naive, holds in both versions.\n- No resampling was used, so no random seed.\n\n## Limitations and open issues\n- The data are current vintage. The exercise simulates publication timing only, not the values first published, so the results have no real-time validity. Revisions to GDP and LFS data could change both the errors and the ranking.\n- Not all of the gain can be credited to employment. The model also adds an intercept and estimates persistence (b < 1, so forecasts are pulled toward the mean), and that by itself may beat the random walk. I did not run a GDP-only AR benchmark, so how much employment itself contributes is not separated out.\n- The 48 evaluation targets overlap, especially at h=3, and cover a single period of slowing growth, so the evidence about other periods is limited.\n- The 1998 yoy values cannot be checked against the file's levels (see Data).\nEOF\ncat > out/claims.json <<'EOF'\n[\n {\"id\":\"C1\",\"text\":\"The direct regression on lagged GDP growth and lagged LFS employment growth has lower RMSE and MAE than the naive forecast at h=1 (RMSE 0.743 vs 0.814 pp, ~9% improvement).\",\"results_keys\":[\"rmse_model_h1\",\"rmse_naive_h1\",\"mae_model_h1\",\"mae_naive_h1\",\"rel_improvement_rmse_h1\"],\"status\":\"supported\",\"caveat\":\"DM test p=0.048 (borderline); gain only ~1% if COVID-era training pairs are kept.\"},\n {\"id\":\"C2\",\"text\":\"At h=3 the model reduces RMSE by about 21% relative to the naive forecast (0.902 vs 1.140 pp).\",\"results_keys\":[\"rmse_model_h3\",\"rmse_naive_h3\",\"rel_improvement_rmse_h3\"],\"status\":\"supported\",\"caveat\":\"DM p=0.105, not significant at 5%; 48 overlapping origins, current vintage data.\"},\n {\"id\":\"C3\",\"text\":\"The improvement is attributable to the timely employment indicator.\",\"results_keys\":[],\"status\":\"not_evaluated\",\"caveat\":\"No GDP-only AR benchmark was estimated; part of the gain may come from mean reversion.\"},\n {\"id\":\"C4\",\"text\":\"At the last origin (2026-04) GDP is available through 2026-02 and employment through 2026-03 under the publication rules, and all forecasts respect these lags.\",\"results_keys\":[\"last_target_date_available\",\"last_predictor_date_available\"],\"status\":\"supported\",\"caveat\":\"Timing simulated on final-vintage data; not real-time first releases.\"}\n]\nEOF\n~/wp29/venv/bin/python out/analysis.py >/dev/null && md5 out/results.json && ~/wp29/venv/bin/python out/analysis.py >/dev/null && md5 out/results.json","description":"Write report and claims, check determinism"}}]}}
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