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  "title": "National Accounts Statistics",
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  "summary": "National Accounts Statistics Training Program Target Audience Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts data.",
  "publishDate": "2024-05-15",
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    {
      "heading": "Training program and target audience",
      "content": "- Training Program: National Accounts Statistics (NAS), presented by the Statistics Department.\n- Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts data.\n- Qualifications: Participants should have a degree in economics or statistics, or equivalent experience.\n- Session No.: AT 24.12\n- Location: Ebene, Mauritius\n- Date: January 29, 2024 - February 9, 2024 (2 weeks) New dates\n- Delivery Method: Blended Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Interpretation Language: French Portuguese\n- Registration status: Deadline passed"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and scope",
      "content": "- The 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).\n- Structure:\n  - Lectures covering methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA.\n  - Workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts.\n- Main aim: To train participants in the compilation of annual gross domestic product both at current prices and in volume terms using the production and expenditure approaches, in support of better policy-making and surveillance.\n- Core coverage:\n  - Overview of the system of national accounts, including the sequence of accounts for transactions and other flows as well as balance sheets, with a focus on the framework of the 2008 SNA.\n  - Main concepts: transactions, other economic flows, stocks, institutional units, classifications, and main macroeconomic aggregates measured by the system.\n  - Production account: definition and measurement of output, intermediate consumption, and value added.\n  - Valuation issues and the treatment of particular industries.\n  - Source data and issues in the compilation of GDP by production and expenditure approaches.\n  - Deflators and derivation of volume measures of GDP.\n  - Specific issues related to goods and services transactions, including supply and use framework, inventory valuation adjustment, consumption of fixed capital, non-observed and informal economy, global supply chains, and the digital economy.\n- Pedagogical emphasis: Sharing country experiences among participants, both informally and via specific country case study sessions."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Asynchronous and synchronous components",
      "content": "- Asynchronous Component — January 15–19, 2024\n  - Comprises five modules focusing on conceptual issues to be performed by participants after each synchronous part.\n  - Supplemented with assigned readings and references.\n  - Modules made available to participants at least five days before the start of the synchronous classes.\n  - Participants required to take a pre-course quiz.\n    - Successful completion (i.e., a passing grade) will not be a pre-requisite for participating in the synchronous component.\n    - The results of the quiz will be used by the instructors to determine the knowledge of the participants.\n- Synchronous Component — January 29–February 9, 2024\n  - Focuses on practical compilation issues and topics requiring greater instructor input and feedback.\n  - Comprises lectures, question and answer sessions and practical workshop exercises.\n  - Lecture format:\n    - Developed using existing lecture presentations and scripts prepared for the online course.\n    - Presented in 30 minutes to 45-minute slots.\n    - Each presentation followed by a brief exercise or question-answer session.\n  - Participant engagement:\n    - Participants invited to present case studies of practical problems or proposed solutions related to source data or compilation.\n    - Participants invited to respond to practice questions in discussion forums, followed by a workshop discussing responses and correct answers."
    },
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      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n  - Understand the main concepts and definitions of the SNA 2008.\n  - Describe the compilation of GDP using production, expenditure, and income approaches.\n  - Discuss the importance of price and volume measures in the national accounts.\n  - Explain the value of high-quality national accounts statistics to policy makers and business decision-makers."
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    "Training Program: National Accounts Statistics (NAS), presented by the Statistics Department.",
    "Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts data.",
    "Qualifications: Participants should have a degree in economics or statistics, or equivalent experience.",
    "Session No.: AT 24.12",
    "Location: Ebene, Mauritius",
    "Date: January 29, 2024 - February 9, 2024 (2 weeks) New dates",
    "Delivery Method: Blended Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Interpretation Language: French Portuguese",
    "Registration status: Deadline passed",
    "The 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).",
    "Structure:",
    "Main aim: To train participants in the compilation of annual gross domestic product both at current prices and in volume terms using the production and expenditure approaches, in support of better policy-making and surveillance.",
    "Core coverage:",
    "Pedagogical emphasis: Sharing country experiences among participants, both informally and via specific country case study sessions.",
    "Asynchronous Component — January 15–19, 2024",
    "Synchronous Component — January 29–February 9, 2024",
    "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:"
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