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  "title": "Virtual: High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity",
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  "summary": "Virtual: High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity Training Program Target Audience Officials responsible for compiling short-term or monthly economic indicators in central banks and statistical offices.",
  "publishDate": "2023-03-13",
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    {
      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Session No.: CE 21.44 V\n- Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait\n- Date: November 1-4, 2021 (1 week)\n- Delivery Method: Virtual Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Status: Deadline passed\n- Target Audience: Officials responsible for compiling short-term or monthly economic indicators in central banks and statistical offices.\n- Qualifications: Participants should have a degree in economics or statistics or equivalent experience.\n- Presented by: IMF's Statistics Department"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and focus",
      "content": "- Discusses identification and assessment of indicators and techniques for combining indicators into a single overall index of economic activity to track trends in the economy.\n- Covers construction of flash estimates or indexes of economic activity that bring together a range of specific economic indicators to give timely overall measures of economic trends.\n- Clarifies the relation and consistency of high-frequency statistics with the system of national accounts, and how they complement annual and quarterly GDP estimates and partial monthly and quarterly indicators.\n- Oriented toward actual or potential compilers of short-term indicators in central banks and statistical offices and those involved in data collection of monthly indicators.\n- Participants are expected to prepare a list of available monthly and quarterly indicators for their country and assemble data for use in the workshop component to develop experimental estimates."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Explain the nature and potential uses of high-frequency statistics on economic activity and their relation to and consistency with the system of national accounts.\n- Design a simple framework for compiling an index of economic activity, from collection of source data to application of simple statistical methods and index compilation techniques.\n- Exploit useful short-term information contained in the IEA by applying analytical tools, deriving tables, and statistical procedures."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Practical components and expected participant work",
      "content": "- Prepare and assemble a list of available monthly and quarterly indicators for their country.\n- Use assembled indicators in workshop exercises to develop experimental estimates and flash indices of economic activity.\n- Apply simple statistical methods and index compilation techniques to combine indicators into a single overall index."
    }
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    "Session No.: CE 21.44 V",
    "Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait",
    "Date: November 1-4, 2021 (1 week)",
    "Delivery Method: Virtual Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Status: Deadline passed",
    "Target Audience: Officials responsible for compiling short-term or monthly economic indicators in central banks and statistical offices.",
    "Qualifications: Participants should have a degree in economics or statistics or equivalent experience.",
    "Presented by: IMF's Statistics Department",
    "Discusses identification and assessment of indicators and techniques for combining indicators into a single overall index of economic activity to track trends in the economy.",
    "Covers construction of flash estimates or indexes of economic activity that bring together a range of specific economic indicators to give timely overall measures of economic trends.",
    "Clarifies the relation and consistency of high-frequency statistics with the system of national accounts, and how they complement annual and quarterly GDP estimates and partial monthly and quarterly indicators.",
    "Oriented toward actual or potential compilers of short-term indicators in central banks and statistical offices and those involved in data collection of monthly indicators.",
    "Participants are expected to prepare a list of available monthly and quarterly indicators for their country and assemble data for use in the workshop component to develop experimental estimates.",
    "Explain the nature and potential uses of high-frequency statistics on economic activity and their relation to and consistency with the system of national accounts.",
    "Design a simple framework for compiling an index of economic activity, from collection of source data to application of simple statistical methods and index compilation techniques.",
    "Exploit useful short-term information contained in the IEA by applying analytical tools, deriving tables, and statistical procedures.",
    "Prepare and assemble a list of available monthly and quarterly indicators for their country.",
    "Use assembled indicators in workshop exercises to develop experimental estimates and flash indices of economic activity.",
    "Apply simple statistical methods and index compilation techniques to combine indicators into a single overall index."
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