## High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity

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**Canonical URL:** [High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/st/2024/ieast24-02)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: ST 24.02
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Dates: January 8-19, 2024 (2 weeks)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Training program and logistics
- Training Program: Statistics Department.
- Session No.: ST 24.02.
- Location: Singapore, Singapore.
- Date: January 8-19, 2024 (2 weeks).
- Delivery Method: In-person Training.
- Primary Language: English.
- Status: Deadline passed.

### Target audience and qualifications
- 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.

### Course description
- Purpose:
  - Identification and assessment of elementary indicators and techniques for combining them into a single index of economic activity to track national trends.
- Rationale:
  - Flash estimates or indexes of economic activity bring together a range of elementary indicators to give timely general measures of economic activity.
  - These measures give policy makers useful information that complements annual and quarterly GDP estimates, which are more comprehensive but usually only available after substantial lags, and 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.
- Practical emphasis:
  - The course is for actual or potential compilers of short-term indicators in central banks and statistical offices and for those who collect data for monthly indicators.
  - 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.

### Course objectives (learning outcomes)
Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Explain the nature and potential uses of high frequency statistics on economic activity as well as their relation and consistency within the system of national accounts.
- Develop a simple framework to compile an index of economic activity, from collection of source data to implementation of simple statistical methods and index compilation techniques.
- Exploit useful short-term information contained in the IEA by applying some analytical tools, deriving tables, and statistical procedures.

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## References

- [In-person Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Executive Training 2 on Fiscal Policy Considerations (FPA)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fpcce26-16)
- [Tax Regional Workshop on Strategic Management](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/taxce26-43)
- [Institutional Sector Accounts-Advanced - Blended (ISA-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/hq/2027/isa-ahq27-02)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/st/2024/ieast24-02_