e-ISSN: 2723-6692 p-ISSN: 2723-6595
Journal of Indonesian Social Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 12, December 2024 3316
The price of chicken eggs is one commodity that has a significant impact on the community's
economy. Fluctuations in the price of chicken eggs over a long period will result in a decrease in
people's purchasing power. Therefore, an effort to control prices in the future is needed. One of the
efforts to control prices in the future is by forecasting. In this research, the forecasting method that
will be used is the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA). The ARIMA method was
chosen because of its reliability in analyzing time series data and its ability to provide accurate
forecasting results (Aksan & Nurfadilah, 2020; Al’afi et al., 2020; Hyndman & Athanasopoulos, 2018).
The data used in this study is chicken egg price data in Bogor Regency / City for the period
January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2023. However, the chicken egg price data found problems in the
form of incomplete data. Data incompleteness can reduce forecasting accuracy. This is because time
series analysis is very sensitive to time (lag). The problem of missing data in this study, one of which
occurred from September 2019 to November 2019. This condition needs to include data in a fairly
long period. Furthermore, in the following years, data still needed to be found. The problem of missing
data (incomplete data) can reduce the accuracy of forecasting results, so it needs to be handled
properly (Little & Rubin, 2020). Therefore, based on these problems, an appropriate method of
handling missing data is needed (Rubin, 2020).
Some methods of handling missing data on univariate time series data include linear
interpolation and simple moving average (SMA) methods. The linear interpolation method estimates
the value of missing data based on a linear trend between two known data points (Sumertajaya et al.,
2023). Meanwhile, the SMA method uses the average value of a number of previous observation data
to fill in the missing data (Putri & Wardhani, 2020; Sarifah et al., 2023).
The missing data in this research data is linear missing data. Therefore, this study compares
two missing data handling methods (linear interpolation and SMA). The performance of the two
missing data handling methods was evaluated on various missing data conditions in the broiler egg
price data for the period January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2023. The results of the comparison of the
two methods obtained a good performance in the missing data handling method. Furthermore, the
best method is used for handling missing data. The results of handling missing data obtained complete
data. The stage after obtaining complete data is the process of forecasting the price of broiler eggs.
Some previous studies related to handling missing data with linear interpolation and
forecasting with the ARIMA method include Ismail et al. (2023) calculating missing rainfall data using
the linear interpolation method. Afridar & Andriani (2022) used the ARIMA method to predict the
price of shallot commodities in Tegal City. Daratullaila and Sari (2024) applied the ARIMA method to
predict the number of crimes in Indonesia.
Based on the description of the problem and previous research, this research handles missing
data and forecasting. The difference between this research and previous research is the process of
comparing two methods of handling missing data before the forecasting process is carried out.
Therefore, this research takes the title "Comparison of Missing Data Handling Methods and
Forecasting of Broiler Egg Prices with Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average." The objectives of
this research are to handle missing data using the linear interpolation method and the simple moving
average (SMA) method. Evaluate the comparison results of missing data handling methods with the
Linear Interpolation method and the Simple Moving Average (SMA) method. Forecasting the price of
chicken eggs in Bogor Regency / City using the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Method.
Evaluate the results of forecasting the price of chicken eggs in Bogor Regency / City
Research Methods
The data used in this study are data on the price of broiler eggs in the Bogor Regency / City. The
data used in this study is 1826 data from January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2021. This data can be
accessed on the official website of the National Livestock Online Market Information System, namely
https://simponiternak. peternakan.go.id/price-region.php.