National Accounts Statistics (NASx)
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Bibliographic details
- Session: OL 25.193
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: French
- Status: Deadline passed
Training program overview
- Session No.: OL 25.193
- Status: Deadline passed
- Location: Course conducted online
- Date: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks)
- Delivery Method: Online Training
- Primary Language: French
- Presented by: Statistics Department
Target audience
- Persons interested in learning how to compile national accounts statistics or in using the statistics for macroeconomic analysis.
Qualifications and technical requirements
- Some knowledge of economics and statistics or equivalent experience is useful.
- Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential.
Course description
- Introduces participants to compiling national accounts statistics based on the System of National Accounts, 2008 (2008 SNA) framework.
- Covers the sequence of national accounts, the accounting rules, and the key macroeconomic aggregates in the SNA framework.
- Teaches the three measures of GDP—the production, income, and expenditure approaches—and how to estimate volume measures of value added.
Course objectives
Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Describe the SNA framework and identify the key macroeconomic indicators.
- Define the components of GDP from the production, expenditure and income approaches.
- Apply the concepts, accounting rules, methods, and data sources necessary to estimate GDP.