The continued increase in availability of economic data in recent years and, more importantly, the possibility to construct larger frequency time series, have fostered the use (and development) of statistical and econometric techniques to treat them more accurately. This paper presents an exposition of structural time series models by which a time series can be decomposed as the sum of a trend, seasonal and irregular components. In addition to a detailled analysis of univariate speci…cations we also address the SUTSE multivariate case and the issue of cointegration. Finally, the recursive estimation and smoothing by means of the Kalman …lter algorithm is described taking into account its di¤erent stages, from initialisation to parameter's estimation.Keywords: SUTSE, cointegration, ARIMA, smoothing, likelihood JEL Classi…cation Numbers: C10, C22, C32A special thanks goes to my Supervisor, Andrew Harvey for his guidance and support over the last year. The usual disclaimer applies, that is, all errors are mine alone.