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  "title": "High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity",
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  "summary": "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": "2025-07-16",
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      "heading": "Program overview and scheduling",
      "content": "- Session No.: JV 24.24\n- Deadline passed\n- Location: Vienna, Austria\n- Date: August 19-30, 2024 (2 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English"
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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."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- Presented by the Statistics Department.\n- Focus:\n  - Identification and assessment of elementary indicators.\n  - Techniques for combining elementary indicators into a single index of economic activity to track national trends.\n- Role of flash estimates/indexes:\n  - Bring together a range of elementary indicators to give timely general measures of economic activity.\n  - Complement annual and quarterly GDP estimates, which are more comprehensive but usually only available after substantial lags.\n  - 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- Participant involvement:\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",
      "content": "- Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:\n  - 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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      "heading": "Institutional note",
      "content": "- IMF offers online training to government officials and the public. Click Learn more to find our current offerings."
    }
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    "Primary Language: English",
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    "Qualifications:",
    "Presented by the Statistics Department.",
    "Focus:",
    "Role of flash estimates/indexes:",
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