Global Calendar of Statistical Events

Organizer(s): IMF Afritac South

Description: The main objective is to strengthen the participants’ knowledge of price indices concepts and methods relating to the implementation of international standards and best practices. This five-day seminar will focus on the fundamental data sources and compilation procedures as well as the challenges compilers face in developing/updating price indices. Topics will include general price indices issues; contributing to the development of source data surveys as well as analyzing the subsequent results; constructing expenditure shares; issues with the development/updating weights, selecting samples, quality adjustment issues, and pricing difficult items. Participants will be invited to list specific questions, topics, issues which will be discussed during the seminar.

Topics: Prices (CSA 205)

Organizer(s): UNCTAD Statistics Botswana

Description: The specific objectives of the workshop are to: * To train national statistical experts to compute the country-specific PCI; * To expose national statisticians to UNCTAD’s Productive Capacities Index (PCI); * To enhance the capacity of national statistical experts to regularly compute and update the PCI using UNCTAD’s methodology; and * To explore how the PCI can be used in national policy-making processes.

Course Language: English

Topics: Capacity development (CSA 708)

Event URL: Event Page

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https://unctad.org/en/Pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=2312