## High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/jv/2024/ieajv24-24)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: JV 24.24
- Location: Vienna, Austria
- Dates: August 19-30, 2024 (2 weeks)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Program overview and scheduling
- Session No.: JV 24.24
- Deadline passed
- Location: Vienna, Austria
- Date: August 19-30, 2024 (2 weeks)
- Delivery Method: In-person Training
- Primary Language: English

### Target audience and qualifications
- 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.

### Course description
- Presented by the Statistics Department.
- Focus:
  - Identification and assessment of elementary indicators.
  - Techniques for combining elementary indicators into a single index of economic activity to track national trends.
- Role of flash estimates/indexes:
  - Bring together a range of elementary indicators to give timely general measures of economic activity.
  - Complement annual and quarterly GDP estimates, which are more comprehensive but usually only available after substantial lags.
  - 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.
- Participant involvement:
  - 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.
  - Participants are expected to work with their own monthly and quarterly time series during the course.
  - These indicators will be used in the practical session as the basis for experimental estimates.

### Course objectives
- Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
  - 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.

### Institutional note
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## References

- [In-person Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2027/cbsat27-10)
- [Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/gfs-ace26-45)
- [Fiscal Sustainability (FS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fsce26-38)
- [Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/sacat26-30)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/jv/2024/ieajv24-24_