Compilation Basics for Macroeconomic Statistics (CBMSx)

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• Session: OL 22.109
• Location: Course conducted online
• Dates: January 1, 2022 - April 15, 2022 (15 weeks)
• Delivery method: Online Training
• Primary language: English
• Status: Deadline passed

Target audience

• Officials who compile macroeconomic and financial statistics in national statistical organizations, ministries of finance, economy, or planning, or in central banks.

Qualifications and technical requirements

• Some knowledge of economics and statistics is helpful.
• Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection.
• Google Chrome web browser.
• Basic Microsoft Excel skills are essential.

Course description

• Presented by the Statistics Department.
• Reviews the basic skills, concepts, and principles required to compile and disseminate macroeconomic and financial statistics.
• Topics covered include:
  • residence,
  • institutional units,
  • institutional sectors,
  • accounting rules,
  • financial instruments,
  • stocks and flows,
  • the IMF’s Data Standards Initiatives,
  • basic macroeconomic linkages among these statistics.

Course objectives

Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:

• Differentiate institutional units and sectors.
• Apply the concept of residence.
• Record stocks and flows in an integrated manner.
• Apply appropriate accounting rules.
• Classify financial instruments.
• Summarize the requirements and recommendations of the IMF’s Data Standards Initiatives.
• Evaluate macroeconomic inter-linkages.

References

• Online Training
• Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)
• Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)
• Fiscal Sustainability (FS)
• Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)
• Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC)