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  "title": "Saint Kitts and Nevis: Technical Assistance Report-Report on Improving Estimates of Gross Domestic Product Mission (June 5–16, 2023)",
  "publication": "Technical Assistance Reports, August 2, 2024",
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  "summary": "A CARTAC National Accounts technical assistance mission to St Kitts and Nevis, re-referenced the volume estimates of quarterly GDP for the years 2012–2022 using 2018 as the base and reference year from the previous 2006 base year.",
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      "heading": "Mission scope and objectives",
      "content": "- CARTAC National Accounts technical assistance mission to St Kitts and Nevis re-referenced the volume estimates of quarterly GDP for the years 2012–2022 using 2018 as the base and reference year (previous base year: 2006).\n- Series were developed for:\n  - Saint Kitts,\n  - Nevis,\n  - combined Federal aggregate.\n- Additional objectives achieved during the re-referencing exercise:\n  - Introduce improvements to methodology and classifications.\n  - Review current price estimates of GDP by expenditure."
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      "heading": "Key methodological improvements and standards alignment",
      "content": "- Final Intermediation Services Indirectly Measured (FISIM):\n  - Calculation of FISIM consumed by each economic sector (businesses) and allocation to economic activities was implemented.\n- Industry classification:\n  - Updated series prepared using the International Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activity (ISIC) revision 4.\n- Standards alignment:\n  - Improvements align the updated GDP series with the standards set out in the 2008 System of National Accounts."
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      "heading": "Data coverage and products",
      "content": "- Temporal coverage:\n  - Quarterly GDP volume estimates for the years 2012–2022.\n- Base/reference year:\n  - 2018 (replacing 2006).\n- Deliverables:\n  - Re-referenced volume series for Saint Kitts, Nevis, and the Federal aggregate.\n  - Reviewed current price GDP estimates by expenditure."
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      "content": "- Pages: 37\n- Volume: 2024\n- Issue: 063\n- Series: Technical Assistance Report No. 2024/063\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400284144.019\n- Stock No: TAREA2024063\n- ISBN: 9798400284144\n- ISSN: 3005-4575\n- Publication date on landing page: August 2, 2024"
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      "content": "- Subjects:\n  - Economic sectors, Expenditure, Imports, International trade, Manufacturing, National accounts\n- Keywords:\n  - business processing documentation, Caribbean, estimates of GDP, Final Intermediation Services Indirectly Measured, GDP, GDP estimate, GDP-p series, Global, gross domestic product mission, IMF's Statistics department, Imports, Manufacturing, Re-refencing, Saint Kitts and Nevis, System of National Accounts.\n\nSaint Kitts and Nevis: Technical Assistance Report-Report on Improving Estimates of Gross Domestic Product Mission (June 5–16, 2023) — August 2, 2024\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- In response to a request from the Statistics Department\n  - In response to a request from the Statistics Department (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - In response to a request from the Statistics Department (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/technical-assistance-reports/issues/2024/08/02/saint-kitts-and-nevis-technical-assistance-report-report-on-improving-estimates-of-gross-552556"
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    "CARTAC National Accounts technical assistance mission to St Kitts and Nevis re-referenced the volume estimates of quarterly GDP for the years 2012–2022 using 2018 as the base and reference year (previous base year: 2006).",
    "Series were developed for:",
    "Additional objectives achieved during the re-referencing exercise:",
    "Final Intermediation Services Indirectly Measured (FISIM):",
    "Industry classification:",
    "Standards alignment:",
    "Temporal coverage:",
    "Base/reference year:",
    "Deliverables:",
    "Pages: 37",
    "Volume: 2024",
    "Issue: 063",
    "Series: Technical Assistance Report No. 2024/063",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400284144.019",
    "Stock No: TAREA2024063",
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    "Publication date on landing page: August 2, 2024",
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    "**In response to a request from the Statistics Department**"
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