In the same way, the second method is related to what happens at a transition point in a sequence analysis; namely the process in which the ex post results from the outgoing period influence the ex ante plans for the forthcoming period. However, in a sequence analysis the two methods are fused in determining the sequence from a given starting-point. Thus the first method is used in the ordinary ex ante way, while the second method shows how ex post result will be transformed into ex ante plans determining the development of the next period. The Swedes later concentrated their attention on the first problem, i.e. "the primary one from a theoretical point of view" (Myrdal 1927, p.21), while they always considered the second problem to be a more complicated question (cp. sect. IX:4:5).