Virtual : National Accounts Statistics (NAS)
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Bibliographic details
- Session: AT 22.33V
- Location: Ebene, Mauritius
- Dates: July 11-22, 2022 (2 weeks)
- Delivery method: Blended Training
- Primary language: English
- Interpretation language: French Portuguese
- Status: Deadline passed
Training program and delivery
- Event: Virtual : National Accounts Statistics
- Session No.: AT 22.33 V
- Location: Ebene, Mauritius
- Date: July 11-22, 2022 (2 weeks)
- Delivery Method: Blended Training
- Primary Language: English
- Interpretation Language: French Portuguese
- Presented by: Statistics Department
Target audience and qualifications
- Target audience:
- Anyone interested in learning how to compile and disseminate national accounts statistics according to the System of National Accounts and using them for macroeconomic analyses.
- Qualifications:
- Some knowledge of economics and statistics or equivalent experience is helpful.
- Access requirements: A computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential.
Course description
- Purpose:
- Teach how to compile timely, high quality national accounts statistics based on the system of national accounts (SNA) framework.
- Key content areas:
- The sequence of national accounts and the accounting rules.
- Key macroeconomic indicators in the SNA framework.
- Gross domestic product (GDP) as the main aggregate of the system.
- Methods to compile consistent and internationally comparable measures of GDP according to the production, income, and expenditure approaches.
- Use of the SNA to track production, consumption, and income.
- How to estimate volume measures of GDP.
Course objectives (learning outcomes)
Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Describe the system of national accounts framework, understand the sequence of accounts and their interrelationships, and identify the key macroeconomic indicators.
- Explain key national accounts concepts, accounting rules, and methods.
- Define the components of gross domestic product (GDP) from the production approach, and apply the concepts, accounting rules, methods, and data sources necessary to estimate GDP from the production approach.
- Define the components of GDP from the expenditure approach, and apply the concepts, accounting rules, methods, and data sources necessary to estimate GDP from the expenditure approach.
- Define the components of GDP from the income approach, and apply the concepts, accounting rules, methods and data sources necessary to estimate GDP from the income approach.
- Define and explain how to compile volume estimates of GDP from both the production and expenditure perspective.