Benchmarking procedures can be used to solve a variety
of problems. There are many examples where monthly and
quarterly series are benchmarked to annual series.
Benchmarking procedures can also be used to adjust
regional totals to country totals. Also, the U.S. Census
Bureau used benchmarking procedures when changing from
one industrial classification code another, benchmarking
the past values of the new series to the past annual
totals from the previous series.
