{
  "title": "Virtual : Monthly Index of Economic Growth-High Frequency Indicators",
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  "summary": "Back to top Qualifications Participants should have a degree in economics or statistics or equivalent experience.",
  "publishDate": "2023-03-13",
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    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience: Officials responsible for compiling short-term or monthly economic indicators in central banks and statistical offices.\n- Qualifications: Participants should have a degree in economics or statistics or equivalent experience."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Invitation and logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: SA 21.32 V\n- Location: New Delhi, India\n- Date: July 12-16, 2021 (1 week)\n- Delivery Method: Virtual Training\n- Primary Language: English"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- Focus: Identification and assessment of elementary indicators and techniques for combining them into a single index of economic activity to track national trends.\n- Purpose of flash estimates/indexes: Bring together a range of elementary indicators to give timely general measures of economic activity that:\n  - Complement annual and quarterly GDP estimates, which are more comprehensive but usually only available after substantial lags.\n  - 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.\n- Participant expectation: 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."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Explain the nature and potential uses of high-frequency statistics on economic activity and their relation to and consistency with the system of national accounts.\n- Design a simple framework for compiling an index of economic activity, from collection of source data to application of simple statistical methods and index compilation techniques.\n- Exploit useful short-term information contained in the Index of Economic Activity by applying analytical tools, deriving tables, and statistical procedures."
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    "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.",
    "Session No.: SA 21.32 V",
    "Location: New Delhi, India",
    "Date: July 12-16, 2021 (1 week)",
    "Delivery Method: Virtual Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Focus: Identification and assessment of elementary indicators and techniques for combining them into a single index of economic activity to track national trends.",
    "Purpose of flash estimates/indexes: Bring together a range of elementary indicators to give timely general measures of economic activity that:",
    "Participant expectation: 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.",
    "Explain the nature and potential uses of high-frequency statistics on economic activity and their relation to and consistency with the system of national accounts.",
    "Design a simple framework for compiling an index of economic activity, from collection of source data to application of simple statistical methods and index compilation techniques.",
    "Exploit useful short-term information contained in the Index of Economic Activity by applying analytical tools, deriving tables, and statistical procedures."
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