## Uganda: Technical Assistance Report - Report on the Quarterly National Accounts Statistics Mission; IMF Country Report No. 17/298, September 2017

_IMF Staff Country Reports, October 6, 2017_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: October 6, 2017
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484321508.002

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### Mission purpose and scope
- Discusses technical advice and recommendations given by the IMF mission to the authorities of Uganda regarding finalization of the rebased GDP estimates for dissemination.
- For the economic activity worksheets, the following were checked:
  - nominal and real growth rates
  - intermediate consumption/gross output ratios at current and constant prices
  - implicit price deflators

### Key findings and methodological adjustments
- A number of adjustments were made to the methodology to improve:
  - the representativeness of the indicators
  - the weights of the composite price indices
  - with the objective to ensure the resulting estimates are within expectations.
- There is considerable scope to improve:
  - the price deflators
  - the constant price estimates

### Follow-up technical assistance
- Technical Assistance to improve the expenditure estimates will be provided during 2015.

### Subject areas and keywords (as listed)
- Subject: Agricultural sector, Consumer price indexes, Economic sectors, Expenditure, National accounts, Price indexes, Prices
- Keywords: Agricultural sector, Consumer price indexes, CR, current price estimate, current price GO estimate, East Africa, GO estimate, GO ratio, GVA estimate, IC estimate, ISCR, Price indexes

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