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  "title": "National Accounts Statistics",
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  "summary": "National Accounts Statistics Training Program Target Audience The workshop is intended for Indian subnational government officials who are integrally involved in the compilation of and dissemination of gross state domestic product statistics (GSDP).",
  "publishDate": "2025-08-20",
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    {
      "heading": "Overview and Logistics",
      "content": "- Event: National Accounts Statistics training workshop (Session No.: SA 24.29).\n- Location: New Delhi, India.\n- Date: July 22-26, 2024 (1 week).\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training.\n- Primary Language: English.\n- Presenters: Experts from the International Monetary Fund's Statistics Department and a representative from India's Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target Audience and Qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - Indian subnational government officials who are integrally involved in the compilation of and dissemination of gross state domestic product statistics (GSDP).\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants are expected to have a bachelor's degree, with backgrounds in economics, accounting, or related fields."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Description — Scope and Topics",
      "content": "- Frameworks and manuals:\n  - Based on the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA) and the Quarterly National Accounts Manual, 2017.\n- Topics covered:\n  - (1) National accounts concepts and methods from the perspective of GSDP.\n  - (2) Data sources and indicators (annual and quarterly), including use of benchmarking techniques.\n  - (3) Price and volume measures.\n  - (4) Fundamental aspects of state/regional economic accounts.\n- Pedagogy:\n  - Interactive lectures and hands-on exercises designed to enable participants to operationalize learning."
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      "heading": "Course Objectives — Expected Competencies on Completion",
      "content": "- Participants should be able to:\n  - (i) Describe fundamental aspects of a national accounts statistical system that is highly aligned with the international standard.\n  - (ii) Compile gross domestic product (GDP) estimates by economic activity and by expenditure from state perspective.\n  - (iii) Highlight similarities and differences between processes for estimating GDP and GSDP.\n  - (iv) Know how to identify statistically high-quality indicator series for estimating GDP and GSDP.\n  - (v) Compile GDP and GSDP volume measures: using double deflation; volume extrapolation; and single extrapolation.\n  - (vi) Know topical areas where India plans to improve its estimates of GSDP."
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