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.

Since the workshop will focus on advanced issues in national accounts, the participants must already possess a firm grasp of the fundamentals of national accounting.

This one-week course will cover advanced issues in National Accounts which compilers often encounter in the compilation of production and expenditure based Gross Domestic Product.
The course will be based on the System of National Accounts 2008 (SNA 2008) and the Quarterly National Accounts Manual, 2017. The following topics will be covered: estimation and allocation of Financial Intermediation Services Indirectly Measured (FISIM); Insurance, Pensions and Social Insurance Schemes; estimation methods for Consumption of Fixed Capital; Work in Progress and Cultivated Assets; extensions and applications of Supply and Use Tables (SUT) and Input-Output Tables (IOT). The course will be delivered virtually, for three hours per day from November 2nd to 6th. The course will feature interactive lectures and hands-on exercises that enable participants to operationalize what they learn.