Compilation Basics for Macroeconomic Statistics (CBMSx)

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• Session: OL 24.133
• Location: Course conducted online
• Dates: May 1, 2024 - April 15, 2025 (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

• Presented by the Statistics Department.
• Reviews the basic skills, concepts, and principles required to compile and disseminate macroeconomic and financial statistics.
• Topics covered include:
  • 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

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.

References

• Online Training
• Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)
• Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)
• Fiscal Sustainability (FS)
• Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)