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  "title": "Financial Access Data Collection and Usage",
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  "summary": "Back to top Qualifications Participants are expected to have a degree in economics, finance, statistics, or equivalent work experience.",
  "publishDate": "2025-05-20",
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      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience: Government officials in central banks and other agencies involved in the compilation of supply side financial access data and the formulation/implementation of financial inclusion policies.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics, finance, statistics, or equivalent work experience.\n  - Participants' current job or responsibilities at work should be linked to the topic of the workshop."
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      "heading": "Course description and emphasis",
      "content": "- The workshop addresses key issues related to data collection and usage of the Financial Access Survey (FAS), the IMF's annual supply-side database on financial inclusion.\n- It will:\n  - Provide an overview of FAS data and highlight its role in policymaking and monitoring financial access and usage.\n  - Share insights from the 2024 FAS pilot.\n  - Explore the future direction of the FAS, including the 2025 FAS Pilot.\n- Peer learning is a central component:\n  - Participants can engage in discussions, ask questions, and share experiences with data collection.\n  - Attendees can discuss challenges in reporting information for the upcoming 2025 FAS Pilot."
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      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:\n  - Understand the nature and content of the FAS data.\n  - Grasp the variables of the 2025 FAS Pilot, including financial health, gender-disaggregated, and digital financial services information.\n  - Improve FAS data collection and reporting through peer learning.\n  - Become familiar with the use of FAS data including for tracking the trends, benchmarking, and policymaking."
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