Quarterly National Accounts/High Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity
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- Published: July 29, 2025
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Course overview
- Title: Quarterly National Accounts/High Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity (QNAx)
- Purpose: Prepares participants to compile QNA and/or HFIEA by providing a thorough understanding of the concepts, source data, and compilation techniques used for producing these datasets.
- Scope:
- Covers both theoretical and practical compilation issues.
- Introduces benchmarking, seasonal adjustment techniques, and volume estimates; explains the application of these techniques to time series data.
- Teaches identification and assessment of available data sources for compiling QNA and HFIEAs.
- Uses related real-time series databases to assess the quality of QNA and HFIEAs.
- Covers implementation of a suitable revisions policy.
- Topic: Macroeconomic Statistics
Target audience and qualifications
- Target Audience:
- This online course is designed for officials worldwide who are responsible for compiling quarterly national accounts (QNA) and/or high frequency indicators of economic activity (HFIEA).
- Qualifications:
- Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; or equivalent experience.
Course objectives
Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Recognize the role, scope, and uses of QNA and HFIEAs.
- Describe the compilation framework for the QNA and the different compilation methods for HFIEAs (including composite leading indicators).
- Review available data sources for compiling QNA by the income, expenditure and production approaches, and HFIEAs.
- Explain the use of volume measures and the basic relation between value, quantity, and price expanding on how to detect and address issues such as the need for updated weights; and recognizing the loss of additivity for chain-linked volume estimates.
- Compile benchmarked series using the recommended techniques. Apply basic techniques for filling data gaps.
- Identify good seasonal adjustment practices and apply basic seasonal adjustment techniques to time series.
- Formulate a balanced revisions policy taking account of how related real-time database can be used to assess the reliability of the QNA/HFIEA estimates.