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  "title": "High Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity/Quarterly National Accounts-Advanced (IEA)",
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  "summary": "High Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity/Quarterly National Accounts-Advanced Training Program Target Audience Officials responsible for compiling short-term or monthly economic indicators in central banks and statistical offices.",
  "publishDate": "2024-03-11",
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    {
      "heading": "Course overview and logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: HQ 24.01\n- Location: Washington, D.C., United States\n- Date: February 26, 2024 - March 8, 2024 (2 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Status: Deadline passed"
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      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - Officials responsible for compiling short-term or monthly economic indicators in central banks and statistical offices.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants should have a degree in economics or statistics or equivalent experience."
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      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- Presented by the Statistics Department.\n- Focus:\n  - Identification and assessment of elementary indicators and techniques for combining them into a single index of economic activity to track national trends.\n  - Flash estimates or indexes of economic activity that bring together a range of elementary indicators to give timely general measures of economic activity.\n- Rationale:\n  - Flash estimates provide timely information that complements annual and quarterly GDP estimates, which are more comprehensive but usually only available after substantial lags, and provide a more comprehensive picture than individual monthly and quarterly indicators, which are up-to-the-minute but reflect just a portion of the total economy.\n- Practical emphasis:\n  - Course is for actual or potential compilers of short-term indicators in central banks and statistical offices and for those who collect data for monthly indicators.\n  - Participants are expected to work with their own monthly and quarterly time series during the course.\n  - These indicators will be used in the practical session as the basis for experimental estimates."
    },
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      "heading": "Course objectives (upon completion)",
      "content": "- Explain the nature and potential uses of high frequency statistics on economic activity as well as their relation and consistency within the system of national accounts.\n- Develop a simple framework to compile an index of economic activity, from collection of source data to implementation of simple statistical methods and index compilation techniques.\n- Exploit useful short-term information contained in the IEA by applying some analytical tools, deriving tables, and statistical procedures."
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    "Location: Washington, D.C., United States",
    "Date: February 26, 2024 - March 8, 2024 (2 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: In-person Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Status: Deadline passed",
    "Target Audience:",
    "Qualifications:",
    "Presented by the Statistics Department.",
    "Focus:",
    "Rationale:",
    "Practical emphasis:",
    "Explain the nature and potential uses of high frequency statistics on economic activity as well as their relation and consistency within the system of national accounts.",
    "Develop a simple framework to compile an index of economic activity, from collection of source data to implementation of simple statistical methods and index compilation techniques.",
    "Exploit useful short-term information contained in the IEA by applying some analytical tools, deriving tables, and statistical procedures."
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