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  "title": "Quarterly National Accounts/High Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity",
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  "summary": "Quarterly National Accounts/High Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity Training Program Qualifications Knowledge of economics and statistics or equivalent experience is helpful.",
  "publishDate": "2025-10-22",
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    {
      "heading": "Logistics and Access",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 24.209\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: June 1, 2024 - April 15, 2025 (45 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: French\n- Status: Deadline passed\n- Qualifications / technical requirements:\n  - Knowledge of economics and statistics or equivalent experience is helpful.\n  - Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Purpose and Target Audience",
      "content": "- This introductory online course is designed for anyone interested in learning how to compile and disseminate Quarterly National Accounts and High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity, according to the recommendations of the System of National Accounts.\n- Emphasis on using QNA and HFIEAs to better understand the role of high-frequency data in analyzing current economic developments."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Content and Scope",
      "content": "- Presented by the Statistics Department.\n- Teaches how to compile timely and high-quality Quarterly National Accounts (QNA) and High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity (HFIEAs).\n- Topics covered:\n  - Concepts, data sources, and compilation techniques needed for producing QNA and HFIEAs, covering both theoretical and practical compilation issues.\n  - Benchmarking techniques.\n  - Seasonal adjustment techniques.\n  - Volume estimates and their application to time series data.\n  - Identifying and assessing available data sources.\n  - Use of real-time series databases to assess data quality.\n  - Implementing a suitable revisions policy for compiling QNA and HFIEAs."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Skills and Competencies (Course Objectives)",
      "content": "- Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n  - Recognize the role, scope, uses, and compilation frameworks for QNA and HFIEAs.\n  - Review available data sources for compiling QNA and HFIEAs.\n  - Explain the use of volume measures and the basic relation between value, quantity, and price—expanding on how to detect and address issues such as the need for updated weights; and recognizing the loss of additivity for chain-linked volume estimates.\n  - Apply basic techniques for compiling benchmarked series and filling data gaps.\n  - Apply basic seasonal adjustment techniques to time series, based on good seasonal adjustment practices.\n  - Describe a balanced revisions policy taking into consideration how a related real-time database can be used to assess the reliability of the QNA and HFIEA estimates."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Related IMF Training Context",
      "content": "- IMF offers online training to government officials and the public. Click Learn more to find current offerings."
    }
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    "Session No.: OL 24.209",
    "Location: Course conducted online",
    "Date: June 1, 2024 - April 15, 2025 (45 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: French",
    "Status: Deadline passed",
    "Qualifications / technical requirements:",
    "This introductory online course is designed for anyone interested in learning how to compile and disseminate Quarterly National Accounts and High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity, according to the recommendations of the System of National Accounts.",
    "Emphasis on using QNA and HFIEAs to better understand the role of high-frequency data in analyzing current economic developments.",
    "Presented by the Statistics Department.",
    "Teaches how to compile timely and high-quality Quarterly National Accounts (QNA) and High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity (HFIEAs).",
    "Topics covered:",
    "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:",
    "IMF offers online training to government officials and the public. Click Learn more to find current offerings."
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