Global Calendar of Statistical Events

Organizer(s): IMF

Description: This one-week course will be presented by experts from the International Monetary Fund's Statistics Department. The course will cover the following topics: national accounts concepts, methods, and framework; estimating Gross Domestic Product using the production approach; best practices on survey design; designing business surveys to enable national accounts compilation; sampling strategies; best practices on edit and imputation; examining specific business surveys and offering suggestions on improvements. The course will feature interactive lectures and hands-on exercises that enable participants to operationalize what they learn. The main lectures and workshops include: 1. Production accounts: measurement of output; intermediate consumption, and value added (gross domestic product (GDP)).2. Survey design and development.3. Business questionnaire design to facilitate estimation of the production accounts and value added.3. Sampling. 4. Edit and Imputation. 5. Case studies of questionnaire design for selected India business surveys.

Topics: Business and agricultural surveys (CSA 60404) System of National Accounts (CSA 20101)

Event URL: Event Page

Additional Urls:

https://www.imf.org/en/Capacity-Development/Training/ICDTC/Schedule/SA/2019/BSQDNASA19-58