Training Catalog Session Details

Officials responsible for compiling short-term or monthly economic indicators.

Participants are expected to have a bachelor's degree, with backgrounds in economics, accounting, or related fields. Since the course will focus on quarterly national accounts, the participants must already possess a firm grasp of national accounts statistics on an annual basis.

This one-week customized training and technical assistance will be presented by an expert from the International Monetary Fund's Statistics Department. The course will be based on the System of National Accounts 2008 (SNA 2008) and the Quarterly National Accounts Manual, 2017. The course will cover the following topics:

• The scope, role and strategic issues of quarterly national accounts.
• Data sources for the production and expenditure approach.
• Strategies for selecting quarterly indicators.
• Establishing a quarterly processing system.
• Benchmarking techniques and software;.
• Seasonal adjustment.
• Price and volume measures.
• Chain-linking quarterly national accounts.
• Inventory valuation methods.
• Revision policy.
• Economic analysis of quarterly national accounts.

The course will feature interactive lectures and hands-on exercises that will enable participants to operationalize what they learn.