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  "title": "National Accounts Statistics-Advanced",
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  "summary": "National Accounts Statistics-Advanced Training Program National Accounts Statistics-Advanced (NAS-A) This 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).",
  "publishDate": "2025-07-24",
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "Course overview",
      "content": "- Training Program: National Accounts Statistics-Advanced (NAS-A).\n- Focus: 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).\n- Main aim: Train participants in developing and using advanced compilation techniques in areas including supply and use tables (SUT), input-output tables, and price and volume measures of the SNA.\n- Format: Lectures covering advanced methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises.\n- Encouraged activity: Participants are encouraged to share their country's experience in data collection and compilation.\n- Topic classification: Macroeconomic Statistics."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Main lecture and workshop topics",
      "content": "- Conceptual framework of the SNA.\n- Estimating output of specific activities.\n- SUT and input-output tables.\n- Price and volume measurement, including chain linking.\n- Inventory valuation adjustment, work-in-progress, and consumption of fixed capital.\n- Thematic and extended accounts."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by the agencies responsible for compiling the data."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications",
      "content": "- Participants are expected to have a degree in economics, or statistics; or equivalent experience."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives (learning outcomes)",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Describe the conceptual framework of the SNA.\n- Apply specific techniques to derive value added in special cases.\n- Apply the techniques used to balance SUTs.\n- Understand the process of converting SUTs to input-output tables.\n- Apply the appropriate techniques to derive volume measures of value added and chain linking.\n- Understand the principles and practice of estimating consumption of fixed capital.\n- Understand the key features of thematic and extended accounts and their use in economic analysis."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Teaching methods and practical focus",
      "content": "- Combination of lectures (theory and methodology) and workshops (practical exercises).\n- Emphasis on advanced compilation techniques and hands-on practice with SUTs, input-output frameworks, and price/volume measurement methods."
    }
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    "Training Program: National Accounts Statistics-Advanced (NAS-A).",
    "Focus: 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).",
    "Main aim: Train participants in developing and using advanced compilation techniques in areas including supply and use tables (SUT), input-output tables, and price and volume measures of the SNA.",
    "Format: Lectures covering advanced methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises.",
    "Encouraged activity: Participants are encouraged to share their country's experience in data collection and compilation.",
    "Topic classification: Macroeconomic Statistics.",
    "Conceptual framework of the SNA.",
    "Estimating output of specific activities.",
    "SUT and input-output tables.",
    "Price and volume measurement, including chain linking.",
    "Inventory valuation adjustment, work-in-progress, and consumption of fixed capital.",
    "Thematic and extended accounts.",
    "Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by the agencies responsible for compiling the data.",
    "Participants are expected to have a degree in economics, or statistics; or equivalent experience.",
    "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.",
    "Apply the appropriate techniques to derive volume measures of value added and chain linking.",
    "Understand the principles and practice of estimating consumption of fixed capital.",
    "Understand the key features of thematic and extended accounts and their use in economic analysis.",
    "Combination of lectures (theory and methodology) and workshops (practical exercises).",
    "Emphasis on advanced compilation techniques and hands-on practice with SUTs, input-output frameworks, and price/volume measurement methods."
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