## Quarterly National Accounts - Advanced

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Quarterly National Accounts - Advanced](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/courses/qna-a)

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: July 29, 2025

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### Course overview
- Training Program offering a thorough understanding of concepts, sources of data, and compilation techniques for producing quarterly national accounts (QNA) statistics.
- Based on the IMF Quarterly National Accounts Manual (2017 Edition).
- Oriented to national accounts compilers from countries that are improving, developing, or planning to develop QNA.
- Covers both theoretical and practical compilation issues.

### Main topics covered
- The scope and role of QNA.
- Data sources for compiling quarterly GDP estimates (using production, expenditure, and income approaches).
- Editing procedures and dealing with indicators.
- Benchmarking techniques for combining quarterly indicators with annual estimates.
- Seasonal adjustment.
- Price and volume measures.
- Chain-linking techniques for compiling QNA time series.
- Early estimates of quarterly GDP.
- Revision policy and dissemination practices.

### Target audience and qualifications
- Target Audience:
  - Officials responsible for compiling national accounts statistics.
- Qualifications:
  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; or equivalent experience.

### Course objectives
- Describe the QNA in terms of its compilation, scope, role, and international standards and best practices.
- Describe data requirements for and methods of compiling the different sets of QNA statistics, especially GDP and its valuation.
- Illustrate the relation of the QNA to other aggregates within the SNA.
- Draw up a simple framework to compile basic national accounts series, from collection and development of source data to application of simple statistical methods to derive aggregates.
- Gain practical experience dealing with specific issues relating to the compilation and use of quarterly data.
- Describe the analytical uses of quarterly information on GDP, other potential analytical uses, and some advanced techniques to assess economic activity more accurately.

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## References

- [Executive Training 2 on Fiscal Policy Considerations (FPA)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fpcce26-16)
- [Tax Regional Workshop on Strategic Management](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/taxce26-43)
- [Institutional Sector Accounts-Advanced - Blended (ISA-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/hq/2027/isa-ahq27-02)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/courses/qna-a_