National Accounts Statistics-Advanced
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Bibliographic details
- Session: ST 25.03
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Dates: March 17-28, 2025 (2 weeks)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed
Session details and eligibility
- Session No.: ST 25.03
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Date: March 17-28, 2025 (2 weeks)
- Delivery Method: In-person Training
- Primary Language: English
- Status: Deadline passed
- Target Audience:
- Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts statistics.
- Qualifications:
- Participants are expected to have a degree in economics, or statistics; or equivalent experience.
Course description
- Presented by the Statistics Department.
- 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).
- Consists of lectures covering advanced methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts.
- Main aim: to train participants in developing and using more advanced compilation techniques in areas including supply and use tables (SUTs), input-output tables, price and volume measures, and thematic satellite accounts.
- Emphasis on sharing country experiences among the participants.
- The course starts with SNA framework and will discuss how these accounts can be extended to address specific user needs.
Main lectures and workshops (topics)
- Conceptual framework of the SNA
- Output of specific industries
- SUTs and input-outputs tables
- Price and volume measurement
- Estimating consumption of fixed capital
- Thematic satellite accounts, with a focus on topics covered in the update of the 2008 SNA (e.g., informal economy, labor accounts)
Learning outcomes / Course objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Describe the conceptual framework of the SNA.
- Apply specific techniques to derive value added in special cases.
- Apply the techniques used to balance SUTs.
- Understand the process of converting SUTs to input-output tables.
- Explain the price and volume measurement techniques, including chain linking.
- Apply appropriate techniques to estimate volume estimates of value added and GDP by expenditure in constant prices.
- Understand the principles and practice of estimating consumption of fixed capital using perpetual inventory models.
- Understand the key features of satellite accounts and their use for policy-relevant economic analysis.