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  "title": "Annual National Accounts",
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  "summary": "Annual National Accounts Training Program Target Audience Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts statistics and main users.",
  "publishDate": "2026-09-09",
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    {
      "heading": "Program overview and logistics",
      "content": "- Training Program: Annual National Accounts (NAS), Session No.: SA 26.47.\n- Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka.\n- Date: November 16-20, 2026 (1 week).\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training.\n- Primary Language: English.\n- 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 — scope and pedagogy",
      "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- Emphasis on:\n  - National accounts concepts, methods, and framework.\n  - Estimating Gross Domestic Product using the production, expenditure and income approach.\n  - Price and volume measures.\n  - An overview of GDP rebasing and backcasting.\n  - Fundamental principles of state and regional economic accounts.\n  - Key topics in the update of the 2008 SNA (2025 SNA).\n- Pedagogical format:\n  - Interactive lectures and hands-on exercises designed to enable participants to operationalize learning.\n  - Emphasis on sharing country experiences among participants."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Main lectures and workshops (content modules)",
      "content": "- (i) Overview of the System of National Accounts.\n- (ii) Gross Domestic Product by Production, Expenditure and Income approach.\n- (iii) Price and Volume measures.\n- (iv) An overview of GDP rebasing and Backcasting.\n- (v) Measuring economic activities at the regional level — Conceptual principles and compilation issues.\n- (vi) Update of SNA 2008 — Recommendations for conceptual changes."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives — participant competencies on completion",
      "content": "- Describe the conceptual framework of the 2008 SNA and the main changes included in the 2025 SNA.\n- Demonstrate an understanding of the three approaches to estimating gross domestic product (GDP): production, expenditure and income.\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.\n- Understand the concepts and critical issues in measuring economic activities at the regional level."
    }
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    "Training Program: Annual National Accounts (NAS), Session No.: SA 26.47.",
    "Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka.",
    "Date: November 16-20, 2026 (1 week).",
    "Delivery Method: In-person Training.",
    "Primary Language: English.",
    "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).",
    "Emphasis on:",
    "Pedagogical format:",
    "(i) Overview of the System of National Accounts.",
    "(ii) Gross Domestic Product by Production, Expenditure and Income approach.",
    "(iii) Price and Volume measures.",
    "(iv) An overview of GDP rebasing and Backcasting.",
    "(v) Measuring economic activities at the regional level — Conceptual principles and compilation issues.",
    "(vi) Update of SNA 2008 — Recommendations for conceptual changes.",
    "Describe the conceptual framework of the 2008 SNA and the main changes included in the 2025 SNA.",
    "Demonstrate an understanding of the three approaches to estimating gross domestic product (GDP): production, expenditure and income.",
    "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.",
    "Understand the concepts and critical issues in measuring economic activities at the regional level."
  ],
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