Training Program

The workshop is intended for government officials who are integrally involved in the compilation of national accounts statistics. Participants should be suppliers of statistics that are used to compile national accounts statistics, national accounts statistics compilers, or users of national accounts statistics for official policy-making purposes.

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

This one-week course will be presented by experts 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 on 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, and, economic analysis of quarterly national accounts.  The course will feature interactive lectures and hands-on exercises that enable participants to operationalize what they learn.