National Accounts Statistics
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- Session: AT 24.12
- Location: Ebene, Mauritius
- Dates: January 29, 2024 - February 9, 2024 (2 weeks)
- Delivery method: Blended Training
- Primary language: English
- Interpretation language: French Portuguese
- Status: Deadline passed
Training program and target audience
- Training Program: National Accounts Statistics (NAS), presented by the Statistics Department.
- Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts data.
- Qualifications: Participants should have a degree in economics or statistics, or equivalent experience.
- Session No.: AT 24.12
- Location: Ebene, Mauritius
- Date: January 29, 2024 - February 9, 2024 (2 weeks) New dates
- Delivery Method: Blended Training
- Primary Language: English
- Interpretation Language: French Portuguese
- Registration status: Deadline passed
Course description and scope
- The course covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA).
- Structure:
- Lectures covering methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA.
- Workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts.
- Main aim: To train participants in the compilation of annual gross domestic product both at current prices and in volume terms using the production and expenditure approaches, in support of better policy-making and surveillance.
- Core coverage:
- Overview of the system of national accounts, including the sequence of accounts for transactions and other flows as well as balance sheets, with a focus on the framework of the 2008 SNA.
- Main concepts: transactions, other economic flows, stocks, institutional units, classifications, and main macroeconomic aggregates measured by the system.
- Production account: definition and measurement of output, intermediate consumption, and value added.
- Valuation issues and the treatment of particular industries.
- Source data and issues in the compilation of GDP by production and expenditure approaches.
- Deflators and derivation of volume measures of GDP.
- Specific issues related to goods and services transactions, including supply and use framework, inventory valuation adjustment, consumption of fixed capital, non-observed and informal economy, global supply chains, and the digital economy.
- Pedagogical emphasis: Sharing country experiences among participants, both informally and via specific country case study sessions.
Asynchronous and synchronous components
- Asynchronous Component — January 15–19, 2024
- Comprises five modules focusing on conceptual issues to be performed by participants after each synchronous part.
- Supplemented with assigned readings and references.
- Modules made available to participants at least five days before the start of the synchronous classes.
- Participants required to take a pre-course quiz.
- Successful completion (i.e., a passing grade) will not be a pre-requisite for participating in the synchronous component.
- The results of the quiz will be used by the instructors to determine the knowledge of the participants.
- Synchronous Component — January 29–February 9, 2024
- Focuses on practical compilation issues and topics requiring greater instructor input and feedback.
- Comprises lectures, question and answer sessions and practical workshop exercises.
- Lecture format:
- Developed using existing lecture presentations and scripts prepared for the online course.
- Presented in 30 minutes to 45-minute slots.
- Each presentation followed by a brief exercise or question-answer session.
- Participant engagement:
- Participants invited to present case studies of practical problems or proposed solutions related to source data or compilation.
- Participants invited to respond to practice questions in discussion forums, followed by a workshop discussing responses and correct answers.
Course objectives
- Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Understand the main concepts and definitions of the SNA 2008.
- Describe the compilation of GDP using production, expenditure, and income approaches.
- Discuss the importance of price and volume measures in the national accounts.
- Explain the value of high-quality national accounts statistics to policy makers and business decision-makers.
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