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  "title": "National Accounts Statistics - Advanced",
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  "summary": "National Accounts Statistics - Advanced Training Program Target Audience Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts statistics and main users.",
  "publishDate": "2025-10-30",
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts statistics and main users.\n- Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; or equivalent experience."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- Covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA).\n- Consists of lectures covering advanced compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts.\n- Main aim: to train participants in developing and using more advanced compilation techniques to cover topics including supply and use tables, input-output tables, and price and volume measures.\n- Course structure:\n  - Review of the SNA framework.\n  - Discussion of how the accounts can be extended to address specific user needs.\n  - Coverage of key topics in the update of the 2008 SNA (2025 SNA).\n  - Emphasis on sharing country experiences among the participants."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:\n- Describe the conceptual framework of the 2008 SNA and the main changes included in the 2025 SNA.\n- Understand the techniques to be used to balance Supply and Use Tables.\n- Understand the process of converting Supply and Use Tables to Input-Output Tables.\n- Apply specific techniques to derive value added in special cases.\n- Explain the price and volume measurement techniques, including the compilation of chain-linked volume measures.\n- Apply appropriate techniques to compile volume estimates of value added and expenditure components."
    }
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    "Target audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts statistics and main users.",
    "Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; or equivalent experience.",
    "Covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA).",
    "Consists of lectures covering advanced compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts.",
    "Main aim: to train participants in developing and using more advanced compilation techniques to cover topics including supply and use tables, input-output tables, and price and volume measures.",
    "Course structure:",
    "Describe the conceptual framework of the 2008 SNA and the main changes included in the 2025 SNA.",
    "Understand the techniques to be used to balance Supply and Use Tables.",
    "Understand the process of converting Supply and Use Tables to Input-Output Tables.",
    "Apply specific techniques to derive value added in special cases.",
    "Explain the price and volume measurement techniques, including the compilation of chain-linked volume measures.",
    "Apply appropriate techniques to compile volume estimates of value added and expenditure components."
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