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  "title": "National Accounts Statistics-Advanced",
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  "summary": "National Accounts Statistics-Advanced Training Program Target Audience Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts statistics.",
  "publishDate": "2025-03-24",
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    {
      "heading": "Logistics and Participants",
      "content": "- Event: National Accounts Statistics-Advanced (NAS-A), Training Program delivered by the Statistics Department, IMF.\n- Session No.: CE 25.09\n- Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates\n- Date: February 17-28, 2025 (2 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Interpretation Language: Arabic\n- Target audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts statistics.\n- Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics, or statistics; or equivalent experience."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Description and Emphases",
      "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 on advanced methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA.\n  - Workshops with practical exercises in compiling the accounts.\n- Main aim: Train participants in developing and using more advanced compilation techniques in areas including supply and use tables (SUTs), input-output tables, price and volume measures, and thematic satellite accounts.\n- Emphasis on:\n  - Extensions of the SNA framework to address specific user needs.\n  - Sharing country experiences among participants.\n  - Topics covered in the update of the 2008 SNA (e.g., informal economy, labor accounts)."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Main Topics and Workshops",
      "content": "- Conceptual framework of the SNA.\n- Output of specific industries.\n- SUTs and input-output tables.\n- Price and volume measurement, including chain linking.\n- Estimating consumption of fixed capital.\n- Thematic satellite accounts."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Objectives (Competencies on Completion)",
      "content": "- Describe the conceptual framework of the SNA.\n- Apply specific techniques to derive value added in special cases.\n- Apply the techniques used to balance SUTs.\n- Understand the process of converting SUTs to input-output tables.\n- Explain the price and volume measurement techniques, including chain linking.\n- Apply appropriate techniques to estimate volume estimates of value added and GDP by expenditure in constant prices.\n- Understand the principles and practice of estimating consumption of fixed capital using perpetual inventory models.\n- Understand the key features of satellite accounts and their use for policy-relevant economic analysis."
    }
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    "Event: National Accounts Statistics-Advanced (NAS-A), Training Program delivered by the Statistics Department, IMF.",
    "Session No.: CE 25.09",
    "Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
    "Date: February 17-28, 2025 (2 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: In-person Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Interpretation Language: Arabic",
    "Target audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts statistics.",
    "Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics, or statistics; or equivalent experience.",
    "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: Train participants in developing and using more advanced compilation techniques in areas including supply and use tables (SUTs), input-output tables, price and volume measures, and thematic satellite accounts.",
    "Emphasis on:",
    "Conceptual framework of the SNA.",
    "Output of specific industries.",
    "SUTs and input-output tables.",
    "Price and volume measurement, including chain linking.",
    "Estimating consumption of fixed capital.",
    "Thematic satellite accounts.",
    "Describe the conceptual framework of the SNA.",
    "Apply specific techniques to derive value added in special cases.",
    "Apply the techniques used to balance SUTs.",
    "Understand the process of converting SUTs to input-output tables.",
    "Explain the price and volume measurement techniques, including chain linking.",
    "Apply appropriate techniques to estimate volume estimates of value added and GDP by expenditure in constant prices.",
    "Understand the principles and practice of estimating consumption of fixed capital using perpetual inventory models.",
    "Understand the key features of satellite accounts and their use for policy-relevant economic analysis."
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