Interest in regional economic issues coupled with advances in administrative data is driving the creation of new regional economic data. Many of these data series could be useful for nowcasting regional economic activity, but they suffer from a short (albeit constantly expanding) time series...

We discuss here a method for identifying relationships between high-frequency and lowfrequency data based on a dynamic regression technique. This allows users to estimate a quarterly analogue to an underlying monthly regression equation. The resulting equation which may be non-linear in the...