Compilation Basics for Macroeconomic Statistics (CBMSx)
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- Session: OL 23.174
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: May 1, 2023 - April 15, 2024 (50 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed
Program identity and logistics
- Session No.: OL 23.174
- Location: Course conducted online
- Date: May 1, 2023 - April 15, 2024 (50 weeks)
- Delivery Method: Online Training
- Primary Language: English
- Status: Deadline passed
Target audience and qualifications
- Target audience:
- Officials who compile macroeconomic and financial statistics in national statistical organizations, ministries of finance, economy, or planning, or in central banks.
- Qualifications:
- Some knowledge of economics and statistics is helpful.
- Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser and basic Microsoft Excel skills are essential.
Course description — scope and topics
- Presented by the Statistics Department.
- Reviews the basic skills, concepts, and principles required to compile and disseminate macroeconomic and financial statistics.
- Topics covered:
- residence
- institutional units
- institutional sectors
- accounting rules
- financial instruments
- stocks and flows
- the IMF’s Data Standards Initiatives
- basic macroeconomic linkages among these statistics
Course objectives — competencies on completion
Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Differentiate institutional units and sectors.
- Apply the concept of residence.
- Record stocks and flows in an integrated manner.
- Apply appropriate accounting rules.
- Classify financial instruments.
- Summarize the requirements and recommendations of the IMF’s Data Standards Initiatives.
- Evaluate macroeconomic inter-linkages.