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  "title": "National Accounts Statistics",
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  "summary": "National Accounts Statistics Training Program Course National Accounts Statistics (NASx) This course introduces participants to compiling national accounts statistics based on the System of National Accounts, 2008 (2008 SNA) framework.",
  "publishDate": "2025-07-24",
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    {
      "heading": "Course overview",
      "content": "- Title: National Accounts Statistics (NASx)\n- The course introduces compiling national accounts statistics based on the System of National Accounts, 2008 (2008 SNA) framework.\n- Covers the sequence of national accounts, the accounting rules, and the key macroeconomic aggregates in the SNA framework.\n- Teaches how to estimate volume measures of value added."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Topics covered",
      "content": "- Sequence of national accounts and accounting rules under the 2008 SNA.\n- Key macroeconomic aggregates in the SNA framework.\n- Three measures of GDP:\n  - the production approach\n  - the income approach\n  - the expenditure approach\n- Methods and data sources for estimating GDP and volume measures of value added."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience:\n  - Persons interested in learning how to compile national accounts statistics or in using the statistics for macroeconomic analysis.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Some knowledge of economics and statistics or equivalent experience is useful."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Describe the SNA framework and identify the key macroeconomic indicators.\n- Define the components of GDP from the production, expenditure and income approaches.\n- Apply the concepts, accounting rules, methods, and data sources necessary to estimate GDP."
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    "Covers the sequence of national accounts, the accounting rules, and the key macroeconomic aggregates in the SNA framework.",
    "Teaches how to estimate volume measures of value added.",
    "Sequence of national accounts and accounting rules under the 2008 SNA.",
    "Key macroeconomic aggregates in the SNA framework.",
    "Three measures of GDP:",
    "Methods and data sources for estimating GDP and volume measures of value added.",
    "Target audience:",
    "Qualifications:",
    "Describe the SNA framework and identify the key macroeconomic indicators.",
    "Define the components of GDP from the production, expenditure and income approaches.",
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