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  "title": "Botswana: Technical Assistance Report-Report on the National Accounts Mission",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, June 11, 2019",
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  "summary": "This paper discusses results of a technical assistance report prepared to assist Statistics Botswana (SB) improve the quality of the national accounts statistics. SB is currently rebasing the annual national accounts with an expected release date of March 2020.",
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      "heading": "Summary of mission purpose",
      "content": "- Technical assistance report prepared to assist Statistics Botswana (SB) improve the quality of the national accounts statistics.\n- SB is rebasing the annual national accounts to a base year of 2016.\n- Expected release date for the rebased annual national accounts: March 2020."
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      "heading": "Economic census and business listing",
      "content": "- An economic census commenced in 2016.\n- The first phase was a business listing exercise which resulted in the identification of 14,452 establishments.\n- The business listing exercise provides the frame for the economic census which underpins the rebasing of the national accounts."
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    {
      "heading": "Workplan, timelines, and management engagement",
      "content": "- SB and the mission developed a detailed workplan to demonstrate the magnitude of rebasing the national accounts.\n- The workplan provided a more realistic (but still very tight) deadline for the completion of the exercise which was presented to management."
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    {
      "heading": "Industry and product classifications",
      "content": "- SB and the mission reviewed the industry and product classifications that had been developed with assistance from the Africa Development Bank.\n- Recommendation: changes to classifications could still be made depending on the data available once compilation commences.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- 1bwaea2019001 - Section 1\n  - 1bwaea2019001 - Section 1 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - 1bwaea2019001 - Section 1 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: June 11, 2019",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781498318044.002",
    "Technical assistance report prepared to assist Statistics Botswana (SB) improve the quality of the national accounts statistics.",
    "SB is rebasing the annual national accounts to a base year of 2016.",
    "Expected release date for the rebased annual national accounts: March 2020.",
    "An economic census commenced in 2016.",
    "The first phase was a business listing exercise which resulted in the identification of 14,452 establishments.",
    "The business listing exercise provides the frame for the economic census which underpins the rebasing of the national accounts.",
    "SB and the mission developed a detailed workplan to demonstrate the magnitude of rebasing the national accounts.",
    "The workplan provided a more realistic (but still very tight) deadline for the completion of the exercise which was presented to management.",
    "SB and the mission reviewed the industry and product classifications that had been developed with assistance from the Africa Development Bank.",
    "Recommendation: changes to classifications could still be made depending on the data available once compilation commences.",
    "**1bwaea2019001 - Section 1**"
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