Description: This one-week course, presented by the Statistics Department, prepares participants to compile QNA by providing them with a thorough understanding of the concepts, source data, and compilation techniques used for producing these datasets. The course covers both theoretical and practical compilation issues. It introduces participants to benchmarking, seasonal adjustment techniques, as well as volume estimates; and explains the application of these techniques to time series data.While the course is broadly based on the IMF Quarterly National Accounts Manual (2017 Edition), it expands on techniques required to dealing with alternative data sources, and mixed frequencies. The course covers both theoretical and practical compilation issues.Participants will learn how to identify and assess available data sources for compiling QNA; use related real-time series databases to assess the quality of QNA; and implement a suitable revisions policy.
Target Audience: Officials worldwide responsible for compiling quarterly national accounts (QNA).
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering advanced methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in developing and using more advanced compilation techniques in areas including supply and use tables (SUTs), input-output tables, price and volume measures, and thematic satellite accounts. The course starts with SNA framework and will discuss how these accounts can be extended to address specific user needs. The main lectures and workshops include: Conceptual framework of the SNA; Output of specific industries; SUTs and input-outputs tables; Price and volume measurement; Estimating consumption of fixed capital; and Thematic satellite accounts, with a focus on topics covered in the update of the 2008 SNA (e.g., informal economy, labor accounts).Emphasis is also placed on sharing country experiences among the participants.
Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts statistics.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering advanced methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in developing and using more advanced compilation techniques in areas including supply and use tables (SUTs), input-output tables, price and volume measures, and thematic satellite accounts. The course starts with SNA framework and will discuss how these accounts can be extended to address specific user needs. The main lectures and workshops include: Conceptual framework of the SNA; Output of specific industries; SUTs and input-outputs tables; Price and volume measurement; Estimating consumption of fixed capital; and Thematic satellite accounts, with a focus on topics covered in the update of the 2008 SNA (e.g., informal economy, labor accounts).Emphasis is also placed on sharing country experiences among the participants.
Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts statistics.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course aims at enhancing participants' theoretical and practical knowledge of National Accounts. They should become familiar with the system framework, the integration and balancing of source data and the presentation of national accounts data.
Target Audience: Junior statisticians of National Accounts (NA) departments or statisticians of other statistical departments dealing with NA statistics.
Description: This course, conducted by the Statistics Department, presents a user-friendly tool developed by the department to automatically combine monetary, government, and international investment position data reported to the Statistics Department to create a distribution of claims and liabilities on a from-whom-to-whom basis—an extremely useful tool for macro-financial analysis. Once the matrix is generated, country officials should be able to use the Balance Sheet Approach (BSA) analysis to focus on overall balance sheet linkages and identify specific exposures and vulnerabilities, such as excessive reliance on external funding, leverage buildup in the corporate sector, and overreliance on the banking sector for sovereign debt placement.
Target Audience: Officials at central banks, ministries of finance and other agencies in charge of compiling monetary and financial statistics, government finance/debt statistics, and external sector statistics; and/or overseeing macro-financial analysis.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The main objective of this course is to offer an overview on the various necessary steps to compile a supply-and-use system and for the transformation of the resulting data in matrices, focusing on practical examples on how that compilation is made. The second objective is to provide an introduction into input-output analysis and to show how this technique may be used for structural analyses. In particular the course aims at illustrating in which fields input-output analysis can be used to address questions of high political relevance.
Target Audience: The course is targeted at ESS staff interested in the principles of compiling supply and use tables according to ESA2010 and in understanding the main concepts and the potentials of input-output analysis for empirical investigations of high political relevance; Sound command of English.
Description: For this Global Network Webinar on “Beyond GDP – Stakes, Challenges, and Statistical Contributions”, we welcomed Stefan Schweinfest and Amr Nour from the UN Statistics Division (UNSD) to discuss the developments around measuring progress beyond Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The webinar gave valuable insights into the policy and political momentum behind this agenda, including the latest relevant action from the Summit of the Future. Amr Nour highlighted the key stakes and challenges, emphasizing the need to move beyond GDP's blind spots in capturing human well-being, environmental sustainability, and inequality. The speakers elaborated on the potential contributions from statistical frameworks, accounts, and work streams across the economic, environmental, and social/demographic domains. Examples included the updated System of National Accounts, the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting, and initiatives like the Statistical Framework for Measuring Sustainable Tourism and Bhutan's Gross National Happiness Index. The Q&A session reflected the statistical community's interest in finding the right balance between conceptual breadth and practical simplicity in developing a new dashboard of progress indicators. Participants emphasized the need for broad stakeholder engagement, user-driven priorities, and building on existing initiatives to ensure country ownership and global comparability.
Description: This one-week course will be presented by experts from the International Monetary Fund's Statistics Department. The course will be based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). This course consists of lectures covering national accounts concepts, methods, and framework; estimating Gross Domestic Product using the production, expenditure and income approach; Supply and Use tables: and price and volume measures The course will feature interactive lectures and hands-on exercises that enable participants to operationalize what they learn. The main lectures and workshops include: (i) Overview of the System of National Accounts, (ii) Gross Domestic Product by Production, Expenditure and Income approach (iii) Supply and use tables (iv) Price and Volume measures (v) Measuring economic activities at the regional level- Conceptual principles and compilation issues
Target Audience: The workshop is intended for government officials who are integrally involved in the compilation of national accounts statistics.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: The course will provide participants with a solid understanding of the links between ESSPROS and national accounts, related concepts and how to implement/exploit these links to identify and understand differences/similarities between the data produced by the two statistical systems.
Target Audience: Data providers in national administrations involved in the production of ESSPROS (European System of integrated Social Protection Statistics) data, with an interest in understanding the links between ESSPROS and national accounts and their potential use in the compilation of the ESSPROS data.
Description: In this Global Network Webinar, we welcomed Herman Smith of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). He presented on the topic “Towards the 2025 System of National Accounts (2025 SNA).” The System of National Accounts 2025 (2025 SNA) updates the 2008 SNA to include new economic developments such as globalization and digitalization, and strengthens the articulation of the linkages between the System of National Accounts and broader measures of well-being and sustainability. The presentation covered the update process and main changes to the 2008 SNA, the development of implementation guidance and a 2025 SNA implementation strategy.
Description: The annual Seminar on national accounts for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2024 is held in hybrid format (in-person and virtual) on 10 and 11 September 2024, at ECLAC headquarters.
Title in Spanish: Evento paralelo – Cuentas Nacionales de Transferencia (NTA) y Cuentas Nacionales de Inclusión (NIAs)
Organizer(s): ECLAC DANE Colombia
Description: Partiendo de la importancia de la estimación de las NIA y las NTA para los países de la región en la formulación de políticas y programas públicos que tengan en cuenta los cambios demográficos, este evento tiene como objetivo compartir las buenas prácticas y desafíos que desde la perspectiva de las y los directores o gerentes de las oficinas nacionales de estadística, organismos internacionales y otros actores clave del ecosistema de datos identifican en la implementación y adaptación de las NIA y las NTA en los sistemas estadísticos, así como su uso para la toma de decisiones en materia de política pública.
Description: This one-week workshop will be presented by experts from the International Monetary Fund's Statistics Department and a representative from India's Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. The workshop will be based on the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA) and the Quarterly National Accounts Manual, 2017. The workshop will cover the following topics: (1) national accounts concepts and methods from the perspective of GSDP; (2) data sources and indicators (annual and quarterly), including use of benchmarking techniques; (3) price and volume measures; and (4) fundamental aspects of state/regional economic accounts. The workshop will feature interactive lectures and hands-on exercises that enable participants to operationalize what they learn.
Target Audience: The workshop is intended for Indian subnational government officials who are integrally involved in the compilation of and dissemination of gross state domestic product statistics (GSDP).
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, teaches you how to compile timely and high-quality Quarterly National Accounts (QNA) and High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity (HFIEAs). The course presents the concepts, data sources, and compilation techniques needed for producing QNA and HFIEAs, covering both theoretical and practical compilation issues. It introduces participants to benchmarking, seasonal adjustment techniques, as well as volume estimates; and explains the application of these techniques to time series data. The course also discussed how to identify and assess available data sources, use real-time series databases to assess the quality, and implement a suitable revisions policy for compiling QNA and HFIEAs.
Target Audience: This introductory online course is designed for anyone interested in learning how to compile and disseminate Quarterly National Accounts and High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity, according to the recommendations of the System of National Accounts, and using them to better understand the role of high-frequency data in analyzing current economic developments.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 23 Apr 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: The aim of the course is: * To improve the capacity of national statistical services to produce high quality ESA 2010 national accounts; * To achieve an understanding of the theoretical basis and structure of ESA 2010 national accounts, together with sources and methodology; * To provide a general overview and an understanding of the links of the different areas of the system of NA.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course aims at enhancing participants' theoretical and practical knowledge of National Accounts. They should become familiar with the system framework, the integration and balancing of source data and the presentation of national accounts data.
Target Audience: Junior statisticians of National Accounts (NA) departments or statisticians of other statistical departments dealing with NA statistics.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in the compilation of annual gross domestic product both at current prices and in volume terms using the production and expenditure approaches, in support of better policy-making and surveillance. The course starts with an overview of the system of national accounts, presenting the sequence of accounts for transactions and other flows as well as balance sheets, with a focus on the framework of the 2008 SNA. It covers the main concepts involving transactions, other economic flows, stocks, institutional units, classifications, and main macroeconomic aggregates measured by the system. The main lectures and workshops include: sessions on the production account covering the definition and measurement of output, intermediate consumption, and value added; valuation issues; and the treatment of particular industries; source data and issues in the compilation of GDP by production and expenditure approaches; deflators and derivation of volume measures of GDP; and specific issues related to goods and services transactions, including supply and use framework, inventory valuation adjustment, consumption of fixed capital, non-observed and informal economy, global supply chains, and the digital economy.Emphasis is also placed on sharing country experiences among the participants.
Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts data.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, teaches you how to compile timely and high-quality Quarterly National Accounts (QNA) and High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity (HFIEAs). The course presents the concepts, data sources, and compilation techniques needed for producing QNA and HFIEAs, covering both theoretical and practical compilation issues. It introduces participants to benchmarking, seasonal adjustment techniques, as well as volume estimates; and explains the application of these techniques to time series data. The course also discussed how to identify and assess available data sources, use real-time series databases to assess the quality, and implement a suitable revisions policy for compiling QNA and HFIEAs.
Target Audience: This introductory online course is designed for anyone interested in learning how to compile and disseminate Quarterly National Accounts and High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity, according to the recommendations of the System of National Accounts, and using them to better understand the role of high-frequency data in analyzing current economic developments.
Description: ESCAP in collaboration with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNSD) hosted a webinar on Updates to the Balance of Payments Manual and the System of National Accounts. The objective of the Webinar was to facilitate understanding of the update processes, the resulting changes, and their implications for official statistics production. Participants were also informed of the joint BPM/SNA chapters, and were expected to identify priority changes for implementation in their country. During the webinar, participants had ample time and opportunity to engage in plenary and group discussions and seek insights from other participants and resource persons. The Webinar was organized for mid-level management and technical staff involved in the compilation and dissemination of external sector and national accounts statistics. Agenda , Webinar: Asian countries (26-27 March 2024) Webinar: Pacific countries (3-4 April 2024)
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, prepares participants to compile QNA and/or HFIEA by providing them with a thorough understanding of the concepts, source data, and compilation techniques used for producing these datasets. The course covers both theoretical and practical compilation issues. It introduces participants to benchmarking, seasonal adjustment techniques, as well as volume estimates; and explains the application of these techniques to time series data. Participants will learn how to identify and assess available data sources for compiling QNA and HFIEAs; use related real-time series databases to assess the quality of QNA and HFIEAs; and implement a suitable revisions policy.
Target Audience: This online course is designed for officials worldwide who are responsible for compiling quarterly national accounts (QNA) and/or high frequency indicators of economic activity (HFIEA).
Description: ESCAP in collaboration with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNSD) hosted a webinar on Updates to the Balance of Payments Manual and the System of National Accounts. Agenda The objective of the Webinar was to facilitate understanding of the update processes, the resulting changes, and their implications for official statistics production. Participants were also informed of the joint BPM/SNA chapters, and are expected to identify priority changes for implementation in their country. During the Webinar, participants had ample time and opportunity to engage in plenary and group discussions and seek insights from other participants and resource persons. , Webinar: Asian countries (26-27 March 2024) Webinar: Pacific countries (3-4 April 2024)
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, deals with identification and assessment of elementary indicators and techniques for combining them into a single index of economic activity to track national trends. Flash estimates or indexes of economic activity bring together a range of elementary indicators to give timely general measures of economic activity. These measures give policy makers useful information that complements annual and quarterly GDP estimates, which are more comprehensive but usually only available after substantial lags, and provide a more comprehensive picture than individual monthly and quarterly indicators, which are up-to-the-minute but reflect just a portion of the total economy).This course is for actual or potential compilers of short-term indicators in central banks and statistical offices and for those who collect data for monthly indicators. Participants are expected to work with their own monthly and quarterly time series during the course. These indicators will be used in the practical session as the basis for experimental estimates.
Target Audience: Officials responsible for compiling short-term or monthly economic indicators in central banks and statistical offices.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering advanced methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in developing and using more advanced compilation techniques in areas including supply and use tables (SUTs), input-output tables, price and volume measures, and thematic satellite accounts. The course starts with SNA framework and will discuss how these accounts can be extended to address specific user needs. The main lectures and workshops include: * Conceptual framework of the SNA; * Output of specific industries; * SUTs and input-outputs tables; * Price and volume measurement; * Estimating consumption of fixed capital; and * Thematic satellite accounts, with a focus on topics covered in the update of the 2008 SNA (e.g., informal economy, labor accounts).
Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts statistics.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in the compilation of annual gross domestic product both at current prices and in volume terms using the production and expenditure approaches, in support of better policy-making and surveillance. The course starts with an overview of the system of national accounts, presenting the sequence of accounts for transactions and other flows as well as balance sheets, with a focus on the framework of the 2008 SNA. It covers the main concepts involving transactions, other economic flows, stocks, institutional units, classifications, and main macroeconomic aggregates measured by the system. The main lectures and workshops include: sessions on the production account covering the definition and measurement of output, intermediate consumption, and value added; valuation issues; and the treatment of particular industries; source data and issues in the compilation of GDP by production and expenditure approaches; deflators and derivation of volume measures of GDP; and specific issues related to goods and services transactions, including supply and use framework, inventory valuation adjustment, consumption of fixed capital, non-observed and informal economy, global supply chains, and the digital economy. Emphasis is also placed on sharing country experiences among the participants, both informally and via specific country case study sessions. Asynchronous Component — January 15–19, 2024 This component will comprise five modules and will focus on the conceptual issues that will be performed by the participants after each synchronous part. The asynchronous component will be supplemented with assigned readings and references. These modules will be made available to the participants at least five days before the start of the synchronous classes. Participants will be required to take a pre-course quiz. Successful completion (i.e., a passing grade) will not be a pre-requisite for participating in the synchronous component. The results of the quiz will be only used by the instructors to determine the knowledge of the participants. Synchronous Component — January 29–February 9, 2024 The synchronous component will focus on the practical compilation of issues and topics that may require greater instructor input and feedback. It will comprise lectures, question and answer sessions and practical workshop exercises. The lectures will be developed using existing lecture presentations and the scripts that were prepared for the online course. The lectures will be presented in 30 minutes to 45-minute slots. Each presentation will be followed by a brief exercise or question-answer session. Participants will be invited to present case studies of practical problems or proposed solutions to practical problems. These issues could be related to source data or compilation. Participants will also be invited to respond to some practice questions in discussion forums. This will be followed by a workshop where the responses to these questions will be discussed, along with the correct answers.
Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts data.
Description: This course, presented by Statistics Department, is based on the conceptual framework of the 2008 System of National Accounts (2008 SNA). It covers advanced methodological and practical issues related to the compilation of the sequence of accounts of the SNA (current and capital accounts, financial accounts, other changes in volume of assets accounts, revaluation accounts, and balance sheets) by institutional sectors. The course also examines the linkages between institutional sectors as a basis for establishing from-whom-to-whom accounts. The aim of the course is to provide participants with the necessary skills to compile—or further enhance—their country’s institutional sector accounts and the balance sheets. The course consists of lectures covering conceptual and methodological issues, workshops sessions on practical compilation issues, discussions on emerging financial issues such as fintech and crypto assets. It reviews case studies involving new applications of ISA such as household distributions to examine income, consumption and wealth accumulation by various cohorts and intergenerational transfers and pensions. The myriad ways in which the ISA supports economic policy is also examined. The lectures provide a thorough review of the methodological framework, concepts, and definitions relating to sectoral institutional sector accounts and balance sheets, examine potential data sources for the compilation of annual and quarterly ISA, and illustrate possible compilation techniques and procedures. The course also provides a forum for participants to share country practices and experiences relating to the compilation of sectoral institutional accounts and balance sheets.
Target Audience: Officials whose main responsibility is compiling national accounts, including financial accounts statistics and balance of payments statistics (specifically responsible for the sectoral accounts, household distribution accounts and accounts on a from-whom-to-whom basis), who are employed by national statistical agencies and central banks.
Description: This course, presented by the IMF's Statistics Department, aims at providing a thorough understanding of concepts, sources of data, and compilation techniques for producing quarterly national accounts (QNA) statistics. It introduces participants to benchmarking, seasonal adjustment techniques, as well as volume estimates; and explains the application of these techniques to time series data. The course also discussed how to identify and assess available data sources, use real-time series databases to assess the quality, and implement a suitable revisions policy for compiling QNA.
Target Audience: Officials responsible for compiling and using intensely national accounts statistics (NAS).
Description: AFW2 conducted a regional workshop to promote best practices and international standards for GDP rebasing, and to strengthen participants’ knowledge on using the Supply and Use Tables (SUT) framework as an integral compilation framework. The regional GDP rebasing workshop was attended by both experienced and new national accounts compilers, which gave everyone an opportunity to share experiences across countries.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course aims at enhancing participants' theoretical and practical knowledge of National Accounts. They should become familiar with the system framework, the integration and balancing of source data and the presentation of national accounts data.
Target Audience: Junior statisticians of National Accounts (NA) departments or statisticians of other statistical departments dealing with NA statistics.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 24 Aug 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The main objective of this course is to offer an overview on the various necessary steps to compile a supply-and-use system and for the transformation of the resulting data in matrices, focusing on practical examples on how that compilation is made. The second objective is to provide an introduction into input-output analysis and to show how this technique may be used for structural analyses. In particular the course aims at illustrating in which fields input-output analysis can be used to address questions of high political relevance.
Target Audience: The course is targeted at ESS staff interested in the principles of compiling supply and use tables according to ESA2010 and in understanding the main concepts and the potentials of input-output analysis for empirical investigations of high political relevance.
Description: The seventh and final meeting is a retrospective of the previous six meetings, returning to key topics and considering the key issues tackled and how we can fit these together.
Description: The sixth meeting on “A conversation about composite measures” discusses one of the hardest and most contentious topics within the Beyond GDP arena, which is the relative benefits and trade-offs between dashboards and composite (single measure) indices. Composite indices can be simpler to interpret or communicate but run the risk of over-simplifying complex issues. This meeting will present new composite indices and include a discussion of best practices in developing composite indices and the latest innovations and potential approaches.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering advanced methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in developing and using more advanced compilation techniques in areas including supply and use tables (SUTs), input-output tables, price and volume measures, and thematic satellite accounts. The course starts with SNA framework and will discuss how these accounts can be extended to address specific user needs. The main lectures and workshops include: Conceptual framework of the SNA; Output of specific industries; SUTs and input-outputs tables; Price and volume measurement; Estimating consumption of fixed capital; and Thematic satellite accounts, with a focus on topics covered in the update of the 2008 SNA (e.g., informal economy, labor accounts).Emphasis is also placed on sharing country experiences among the participants.
Description: The fifth meeting on “Mapping distributional frameworks” seeks to discover the synergies among the different distributional frameworks by asking ourselves who are the users, what policy questions are addressed, and how policy applications like models and other techniques are supported.
Description: The fourth meeting on “Mapping domestic wellbeing dashboards and their concepts and contents” will review the current state of domestic wellbeing dashboards globally, their commonality, uses and impact, especially on policy-making.
Description: The Director of UNSD participated remotely in a high-level panel organized by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico (INEGI), to engage in a dialogue with users specialized in Mexico's System of National Accounts, on the occasion of the update of the base year change to 2018. Expert users from the public, private, social and international sectors, who presented their perspective on the importance of updating the SNA database, participated in the event. Before an audience of more than 300 in person and several hundred virtual participants, the UNSD director highlighted the importance of using international statistical standards and integrated information in the production of information. INEGI presented the main results of their new database as well as the regional breakdown of several annual and quarterly products, in response to user demand expressed through the public consultation process, helping to measure the three pillars of sustainable development. INEGI implemented the first global pilot on economic and environmental accounts; and more recently the pilot of ecosystem accounts which contributed to the adoption of the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting as a statistical standard.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, teaches you how to compile timely, high quality national accounts statistics based on the system of national accounts (SNA) framework. The course introduces the sequence of national accounts, the accounting rules, and the key macroeconomic indicators in the SNA framework. You will learn about gross domestic product (GDP) - the main aggregate of the system, and how to compile consistent and internationally comparable measures of GDP according to the production, income, and expenditure approaches. The course also discusses in detail, how the SNA can be used to track an economy's production, consumption, and income and how to estimate volume measures of GDP.
Target Audience: This introductory online course is designed for anyone interested in learning how to compile and disseminate national accounts statistics according to the System of National Accounts and using them for macroeconomic analyses.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, teaches you how to compile timely and high-quality Quarterly National Accounts (QNA) and High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity (HFIEAs). The course presents the concepts, data sources, and compilation techniques needed for producing QNA and HFIEAs, covering both theoretical and practical compilation issues. It introduces participants to benchmarking, seasonal adjustment techniques, as well as volume estimates; and explains the application of these techniques to time series data. The course also discussed how to identify and assess available data sources, use real-time series databases to assess the quality, and implement a suitable revisions policy for compiling QNA and HFIEAs.
Target Audience: This introductory online course is designed for anyone interested in learning how to compile and disseminate Quarterly National Accounts and High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity, according to the recommendations of the System of National Accounts, and using them to better understand the role of high-frequency data in analyzing current economic developments.
Description: One of the key features of the programme for the update of the 2008 SNA is the outreach component, which aims: (a) to keep countries informed and updated on the process of updating the 2008 SNA; (b) to foster global consultation on recommendations for the update of the 2008 SNA; and (c) to work with countries on the testing and early implementation of new recommendations. The outreach is supported by dedicated webpages (Towards the 2025 SNA) maintained by UNSD, which provide extensive information on the update. As part of this outreach initiative UNSD presented the progress with the update of the 2008 SNA in two webinars. The first was organized in collaboration with the UNECA and the African Union Institute for Statistics on 30 October 2023 and the second was organized by UNESCAP as part of their Joint Meeting of the Steering Groups of the ESCAP Committee on Statistics on 2 November 2023. More information on the recommended changes to the 2008 SNA is available online.
Description: The third meeting on “What is the role of Environmental, Social, and Governance data within Beyond GDP?” will look at progress made in the development of the standards to measure enterprises non-financial performance (Environment, Social and Governance - ESG). It will explore options to leverage existing data from other frameworks to fill in data gaps. The meeting is also an opportunity to discuss data users' needs, existing tools and research progress on the subject.
Description: The second meeting will discuss the themes that are important in the context of measuring and tracking well-being from the perspective of users. Please register for this and future meetings using the online registration form so that we can send you the connection details.
Source: IMF Metac (Data extracted on: 23 Apr 2024 )
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Organizer(s): IMF METAC AITRS
Description: In collaboration with the Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics (AITRS), METAC conducted a five-day workshop on Compiling Supply and Use Tables. The workshop was attended by 23 participants from 12 Arab countries and covered topics such as data sources and practical compilation techniques, balancing methods, transforming SUTs into input-output tables, and compiling SUTs in volume terms. Participants benefitted from presentations by the IMF expert, doing exercises for self-learning, and peer-to-peer learning through discussions on country practices.
Description: The first meeting will trace the evolution of social and demographic statistics since the 1940s, and their scope and position in the 2025 SNA. Please register for this and future meetings using the online registration form so that we can send you the connection details.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 29 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: The aim of the course is: To improve the capacity of national statistical services to produce high quality ESA 2010 national accounts; To achieve an understanding of the theoretical basis and structure of ESA 2010 national accounts, together with sources and methodology; To provide a general overview and an understanding of the links of the different areas of the system of NA.
Target Audience: Staff working in National Statistical Institutes and Competent National Authorities (CNA) on the compilation of National Accounts (NA). The course is targeted at junior statisticians with at least one year’s experience in NA through to staff with several years' experience.
Description: UNSD participated, as resource persons, in the “Webinar on Communication/Testing and early implementation of new recommendations of the update of the System of National Accounts, 2008”, which was organized by the African Union Institute for Statistics (Statafric). The webinar was one of a series of webinars organized by Statafric to inform its Member States on the progress of the work to update the System of National Accounts,2008 (2008 SNA) and to collect their proposals/contributions on the issues addressed. The webinar was attended by around 65 participants, mainly from Africa. The chair of the communication task team (one of priority areas in the update of the 2008SNA) gave an overview of the recommendations in the various guidance notes that the task team has prepared and the way forward. In addition, USND presented an overview of the processes underlying the guidance notes and experimentation and testing exercises which will be organized to test the recommendations in selected guidance notes.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 29 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course aims at enhancing participants' theoretical and practical knowledge of National Accounts. They should become familiar with the system framework, the integration and balancing of source data and the presentation of national accounts data.
Target Audience: Junior statisticians of National Accounts (NA) departments or statisticians of other statistical departments dealing with NA statistics.
Regional Workshop on Measuring Gross Capital Formation
07 May 2023 – 11 May 2023
Source: IMF Metac (Data extracted on: 29 May 2024 )
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Description: In collaboration with the IMF's Middle East Center for Economics and Finance (CEF), METAC conducted a five-day workshop on Measuring Gross Capital Formation. The workshop was attended by 34 participants from 16 Arab countries and covered concepts, data sources, and measurement methods to compile estimates of gross fixed capital formation, changes in inventories, consumption of fixed capital, and stocks of produced assets at current prices and in volume terms.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in the compilation of annual gross domestic product both at current prices and in volume terms using the production and expenditure approaches, in support of better policy-making and surveillance. The course starts with an overview of the system of national accounts, presenting the sequence of accounts for transactions and other flows as well as balance sheets, with a focus on the framework of the 2008 SNA. It covers the main concepts involving transactions, other economic flows, stocks, institutional units, classifications, and main macroeconomic aggregates measured by the system. The main lectures and workshops include: sessions on the production account covering the definition and measurement of output, intermediate consumption, and value added; valuation issues; and the treatment of particular industries; source data and issues in the compilation of GDP by production and expenditure approaches; deflators and derivation of volume measures of GDP; and specific issues related to goods and services transactions, including supply and use framework, inventory valuation adjustment, consumption of fixed capital, non-observed and informal economy, global supply chains, and the digital economy.Emphasis is also placed on sharing country experiences among the participants.
Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts data.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, teaches you how to compile timely and high-quality Quarterly National Accounts (QNA) and High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity (HFIEAs). The course presents the concepts, data sources, and compilation techniques needed for producing QNA and HFIEAs, covering both theoretical and practical compilation issues. It introduces participants to benchmarking, seasonal adjustment techniques, as well as volume estimates; and explains the application of these techniques to time series data. The course also discussed how to identify and assess available data sources, use real-time series databases to assess the quality, and implement a suitable revisions policy for compiling QNA and HFIEAs.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, teaches you how to compile timely, high quality national accounts statistics based on the system of national accounts (SNA) framework. The course introduces the sequence of national accounts, the accounting rules, and the key macroeconomic indicators in the SNA framework. You will learn about gross domestic product (GDP) - the main aggregate of the system, and how to compile consistent and internationally comparable measures of GDP according to the production, income, and expenditure approaches. The course also discusses in detail, how the SNA can be used to track an economy's production, consumption, and income and how to estimate volume measures of GDP.
Description: تعد الحسابات القومية الربع السنوية أداة مهمة لقياس وفهم الأداء الاقتصادي على المدى القصير، حيث تمكن من تحليل دورة الأعمال، وتحديد نقاط التحول، ودراسة العلاقات الديناميكية بين المتغيرات الاقتصادية، وللتنبؤ. وتساعد أيضًا الحكومات ومتخذي القرار على تحديد الأولويات الاقتصادية وتوجيه الاستثمارات وتحديد السياسات الاقتصادية الملائمة لتحسين الأداء الاقتصادي للبلد. تتنزل هذه الورشة في إطار دعم القدرات الإحصائية للمحاسبين القوميين في مجال الحسابات القومية ربع السنوية من حيث مصادر البيانات وطرق معالجة البيانات وتحليلها ونشرها وفق المنهجيات الدولية والتطورات المسجلة على مستوى جمع البيانات وتوفرها، ومنها بالأساس النسخة المحدثة من دليل الحسابات القومية ربع السنوية (طبعة 2017) الصادر عن صندوق النقد الدولي. كما تزداد الحاجة الى الاحصائيات والمؤشرات على المدى القصير في ضوء الازمات الاقتصادية المتواترة والصراعات في مختلف المناطق وخاصة على مستوى المنطقة العربية.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, prepares participants to compile QNA and/or HFIEA by providing them with a thorough understanding of the concepts, source data, and compilation techniques used for producing these datasets. The course covers both theoretical and practical compilation issues. It introduces participants to benchmarking, seasonal adjustment techniques, as well as volume estimates; and explains the application of these techniques to time series data. Participants will learn how to identify and assess available data sources for compiling QNA and HFIEAs; use related real-time series databases to assess the quality of QNA and HFIEAs; and implement a suitable revisions policy.
Description: There is clear demand from policy makers, governments, academics and the public to move the statistical measurement framework beyond gross domestic product (GDP), which primarily focuses on economic performance. While traditional measures of economic performance will always have a place, there is a gap between the information contained in GDP and what counts for people’s well-being. Responding to the beyond GDP agenda will require a combination of economic, environmental and social measures that go beyond measures of market activity and include measures centred on people’s well-being, and sustainability of the environment, making the contribution of nature to our well-being explicit. The aim would be to inform various policy goals, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and, in the context of accounting for people’s well-being, to address the call by the Secretary-General for new measures of progress to complement GDP. In addition, the Secretary General acknowledged the role of implementing the System of Environmental Economic Accounts (SEEA) and said: "This is a historic step towards transforming how we view and value nature. We will no longer be heedlessly allowing environmental destruction and degradation to be considered economic progress." Going beyond GDP is not to redefine the current sets of indicators, but to identify accounts and indicators so that countries can produce internationally comparable statistics that provide important information for policymakers that go beyond measures of economic performance. While the theme of "Beyond GDP" has a broad scope, this event will first present the need for broader measures of progress and will introduce measures such as a multidimensional vulnerability index (MVI) to assess the vulnerability of small island states as well as other countries; and measures that go beyond the narrow focus on economic growth towards what counts for people and the planet. The event is organized along two panels one representing the users needs for measures beyond GDP and the other presenting how national statistical offices have responded to these demands. In particular, the two panels will address the need for: Measures of social and demographic developments to complement measures of economic performance. Some countries have been pioneers and have done inspiring work in terms of the distribution of income and welfare measures, unpaid household service work, generational distribution of wealth and systems of quality of life statistics Measuring the contribution of nature to our wellbeing – The SEEA has been adopted as an international statistical standard and it is being used to supporting various policy frameworks being implemented in over 90 countries; In the context of updating the 2008 SNA the broadening of the national accounts’ framework to better account for elements affecting well-being and sustainability by describing where the national accounts can contribute to understanding well-being and sustainability, including where the framework can be extended, and where other frameworks such as those from SEEA and demographic and social statistics are required to provide a more comprehensive understanding of these issues.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 07 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP
Description: The System of National Accounts is a statistical framework that provides a comprehensive,consistent and flexible set of macroeconomic accounts that can be used by governments,businessesand international organizations for policy makinganalysis and research purposes. The SNA is intended for use by all countrieshaving been designed to accommodate the needs of countries at different stages of economic development. It also provides an overarching framework for standards in other domains of economic statisticsfacilitating the integration of these statistical systems to achieve consistency with the national accounts.
Description: This course, presented by the IMF Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering advanced methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in the compilation of more advanced parts of the accounting structure including supply and use tables, input-output tables, satellite accounts, labor and productivity statistics, and advanced price and volume topics. The course starts with review of the sequence of accounts with a focus on how these accounts can be extended to address specific user needs. The main lectures and workshops include: * Supply and use tables. * Input-Output Tables. * Trade in Value Added. * Satellite Accounts. * Labor and Productivity Statistics. * Advanced topics in price and volume measurement. * Emphasis is also placed on sharing country experiences among the participants.
Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts statistics.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, teaches you how to compile timely and high-quality Quarterly National Accounts (QNA) and High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity (HFIEAs). The course presents the concepts, data sources, and compilation techniques needed for producing QNA and HFIEAs, covering both theoretical and practical compilation issues. It introduces participants to benchmarking, seasonal adjustment techniques, as well as volume estimates; and explains the application of these techniques to time series data. The course also discussed how to identify and assess available data sources, use real-time series databases to assess the quality, and implement a suitable revisions policy for compiling QNA and HFIEAs.
Description: "Disclosure: Due to COVID 19, courses will be delivered in person, hybrid, or virtual, according to safety guidelines. As of today, this course is scheduled to be delivered in person in Vienna, but its delivery method may change. By submitting your application, you confirm your availability to participate in the course either in person or virtually. Up-to-date Covid-19 vaccination is likely to be required and related information may be requested from participants for in-person courses. " This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering advanced methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in developing and using more advanced compilation techniques in areas including supply and use tables (SUTs), input-output tables, price and volume measures, and thematic satellite accounts. The course starts with SNA framework and will discuss how these accounts can be extended to address specific user needs. The main lectures and workshops include: Conceptual framework of the SNA; Output of specific industries; SUTs and input-outputs tables; Price and volume measurement; Estimating consumption of fixed capital; and Thematic satellite accounts, with a focus on topics covered in the update of the 2008 SNA (e.g., informal economy, labor accounts).Emphasis is also placed on sharing country experiences among the participants.
Description: This one-week course will be presented by experts from the International Monetary Fund's Statistics Department. The course will be based on the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course will cover the following topics: national accounts concepts, methods, and framework; estimating Gross Domestic Product using the production, expenditure and income approach; Supply and Use tables and Input and Output tables; price and volume measures and Satellite accounts. The course will feature interactive lectures and hands-on exercises that enable participants to operationalize what they learn. The main lectures and workshops include: (i) Overview of the System of National Accounts, (ii) Gross Domestic Product by Production, Expenditure and Income approach (iii) Supply and use tables and Input and output tables (iv) Price and Volume measures (v) Satellite accounts.
Description: This course, presented by the IMF Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering advanced methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in the compilation of more advanced parts of the accounting structure including supply and use tables, input-output tables, satellite accounts, labor and productivity statistics, and advanced price and volume topics. The course starts with review of the sequence of accounts with a focus on how these accounts can be extended to address specific user needs. The main lectures and workshops include: * Supply and use tables. * Input-Output Tables. * Trade in Value Added. * Satellite Accounts. * Labor and Productivity Statistics. * Advanced topics in price and volume measurement. * Emphasis is also placed on sharing country experiences among the participants.
Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts statistics.
Description: This webinar will discuss efforts by the UN system to develop complementary indicators to gauge dimensions of progress that are not sufficiently covered by the purely economic measurement of gross domestic product (GDP). As an introduction a brief history of GDP will be presented, showing why it has been a great success story of the United Nations as well as what GDP is and what it is not (and was never meant to be). This will be followed by a reflection on the uses of GDP and the need to develop measures “beyond” the purely economic sphere. The presentation will be completed by a description of what the UN Statistical Commission is doing in its current efforts to revise the System of National Accounts by 2025 and an explanation of how that work can and will solve some, but not all, of the current challenges. Further complementary measures are needed and, in a recent report, the UN system has presented some proposals on how such measures can be developed.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 31 Jan 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course aims at enhancing participants' theoretical and practical knowledge of National Accounts. They should become familiar with the system framework, the integration and balancing of source data and the presentation of national accounts data.
Target Audience: Junior statisticians of National Accounts (NA) departments or statisticians of other statistical departments dealing with NA statistics.
Description: Measures of trade in value-added (TiVA) have transformed our ability to understand the scale and complexity of global value chains. However, to a large extent, the accuracy of these estimates is determined by the granularity of information used to construct them. Because exporting firms typically have higher shares of imports in their intermediate inputs than non-exporting firms in the same sector, input-output tables that do not account for firm heterogeneity provide lower-bound estimates of the importance of imports for exports, and therefore undermine the degree of a country or sector’s integration into global value chains (GVCs). Moreover, additional attention should also be devoted to firms themselves. Even within narrowly defined industries, firms exhibit distinctive characteristics in terms of size, ownership, productivity, and skilled-labour intensity, and therefore they are integrated into GVCs in different ways and to different extends. Since the OECD and some National Statistical Offices first began this research in 2014, studies haves been carried out using either aggregated business data (such as TEC, STEC, AMNE, and SDBS) or in collaboration with national statistical offices using micro-data. Tremendous progress has been made in the past few years, but the country’s coverage remains patchy. Therefore, the OECD Expert Group on Extended Supply and Use Tables (EGESUTs) is created to promote best practices and to encourage more countries to join these existing efforts. Established in 2014 and officially reporting to the OECD Working Party on National Accounts, the Expert Group is collaborating at an international level with experts from the National Statistical Offices. Its current mandate, which was endorsed in December 2020, is to provide: * Provide a methodological guide to compiling Extended Supply and Use Tables, which describes best practices (and alternatives) and proposes guidance in the creation of international standards; * Draft a final report with the results of discussion of Beyond Value Added topics, including jobs and compensations, CO2 and other emissions and income distribution; and * Facilitate further discussion on particular SUT estimation challenges, including difficulties in (1) the measurement of re-exports, merchanting and processing, (2) the generation of projections and nowcasting, and (3) the breakdowns of imports and exports by partner.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 31 Jan 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The main objective of this course is to offer an overview on the various necessary steps to compile a supply-and-use system and for the transformation of the resulting data in matrices, focusing on practical examples on how that compilation is made. The second objective is to provide an introduction into input-output analysis and to show how this technique may be used for structural analyses. In particular the course aims at illustrating in which fields input-output analysis can be used to address questions of high political relevance.
Target Audience: The course is targeted at ESS staff interested in the principles of compiling supply and use tables according to ESA2010 and in understanding the main concepts and the potentials of input-output analysis for empirical investigations of high political relevance; Sound command of English.
Description: The workshop will focus on the compilation of SUTs to promote best practices and international standards for the SUT compilation and to strengthen the participants’ knowledge of SUT concepts and methods.
Description: This seminar will address the updating of the Manual of the National Accounts System, 2025 and the future of economic statistics. Topics of the current situation are raised, of the changing dynamics that have been generated in the measurement processes, the challenges faced to approach the new statistics and sources of information, as well as of the testing and experimentation mechanisms that are being proposing to countries
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 08 Aug 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: The aim of the course is: * To improve the capacity of national statistical services to produce high quality ESA 2010 national accounts; * To achieve an understanding of the theoretical basis and structure of ESA 2010 national accounts, together with sources and methodology; * To provide a general overview and an understanding of the links of the different areas of the system of NA.
Target Audience: Staff working in National Statistical Institutes and Competent National Authorities on the compilation of National Accounts (NA). The course is targeted at junior statisticians with at least one year's experience in NA through to staff with several years' experience. Please note: All ESTP Courses are exclusively available to staff members of a European Statistical System (ESS) institution.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 25 Feb 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course aims at enhancing participants' theoretical and practical knowledge of National Accounts. They should become familiar with the system framework, the integration and balancing of source data and the presentation of national accounts data.
Target Audience: Junior statisticians of National Accounts (NA) departments or statisticians of other statistical departments dealing with NA statistics.
Description: The workshop aims to provide an update on the progress of the work to update the SNA; present the proposed outline of the 2025 SNA; discuss the guidance notes on the priority areas (communication, globalization, digitalization and well-being and sustainability) and thematic topics (financial and payments systems, informal economy and Islamic finance); and invite participating economies to participate in the experimentation and testing exercises for some guidance notes. Overseas participants who want to attend the workshop virtually should submit the online registration form by 5 pm, 31 August 2022, Beijing time.
Title in Arabic: الحسابات الفرعية في الحسابات القومية
Organizer(s): AITRS
Description: يحتوي الإطار المركزي للحسابات القومية على قيود هيكلية تحول من دراسة وتحليل مجالات معينة من الحياة الاقتصادية والاجتماعية، حيث يتم تركيب الحسابات القومية استنادا الى تصانيف محددة لا تمكن من احتواء قطاعات افقية على غرار السياحة والاقتصاد الرقمي وغيرها من المجالات الأخرى. ولتجاوز هذا النقص، قدم نظام الحسابات القومية في نسخة 1993 لأول مرة فكرة الحسابات الفرعية، والتي تم تفصيلها وتنفيذها بشكل كامل في نظام الحسابات القومية لسنة 2008. وأصبحت الحسابات الفرعية للحسابات القومية على مدى العقود الثلاثة الماضية، شائعة بشكل متزايد في جميع أنحاء العالم وذلك اعتبارا لمزاياها، حيث تمكن من استعارة بعض أفضل ميزات الإطار المركزي للحسابات القومية مع توفير حرية تجاوز بعض قيودها. والحسابات الفرعية للحسابات القومية هي حسابات متماسكة نظريًا ومفصلة مع الإطار المركزي الذي تكملوه وتوسعه.
Description: This one-week course will cover theoretical and practical issues related to the compilation of sectoral accounts (current and capital accounts, financial accounts, other changes in volume of assets accounts, and revaluation accounts) and balance sheets according to institutional sectors. The aim of the course is to provide participants with the necessary skills to compile the sectoral accounts and the balance sheets. The course consists of lectures covering conceptual and methodological issues as well as exercises that require the application of these concepts and that highlight practical compilation issues. The lectures provide a thorough review of the methodological framework, concepts, and definitions relating to sectoral accounts and balance sheets, including accounting rules, valuation, institutional units and sectors, and residency. The course will also outline potential data sources for their compilation and illustrate recommended compilation techniques and procedures.
Description: This is a side-event of Twenty-first meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC. The seminar will address the various statistical challenges related to the improvement of GDP measurement and the production of complementary indicators to account for economic, social and environmental development.
Description: "Disclosure: Due to COVID 19, courses will be delivered in person, hybrid, or virtual, according to safety guidelines. As of today, this course is scheduled to be delivered in person in Vienna, but its delivery method may change. By submitting your application, you confirm your availability to participate in the course either in person or virtually. Up-to-date Covid-19 vaccination is likely to be required and related information may be requested from participants for in-person courses. " This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical issues related to the compilation of ISA (current and capital accounts, financial accounts, other changes in volume of assets accounts, and revaluation accounts) and balance sheets according to institutional sectors. The course is based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts, 2008 (2008 SNA). The aim of the course is to provide participants with the necessary skills to compile the ISA and the balance sheets. The course consists of lectures covering conceptual and methodological issues as well as exercises that require the application of these concepts and that highlight practical compilation issues. The lectures provide a thorough review of the methodological framework, concepts, and definitions relating to ISA and balance sheets, including accounting rules, valuation, institutional units and sectors, and residency. The course will also outline potential data sources for their compilation and illustrate recommended compilation techniques and procedures.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, teaches you how to compile timely, high quality national accounts statistics based on the system of national accounts (SNA) framework. The course introduces the sequence of national accounts, the accounting rules, and the key macroeconomic indicators in the SNA framework. You will learn about gross domestic product (GDP) - the main aggregate of the system, and how to compile consistent and internationally comparable measures of GDP according to the production, income, and expenditure approaches. The course also discusses in detail, how the SNA can be used to track an economy's production, consumption, and income and how to estimate volume measures of GDP.
Description: The African Centre for Statistics (ACS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in collaboration with the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) will organize a virtual third regional thematic seminar on System of National Accounts (SNA) Update Programme from 6 to 9 June 2022. The regional thematic seminar is part of the follow-up actions recommended by the Global Consultative Group of Experts on National Accounts (AEG) responsible for updating the SNA. This follows the information seminar detailing the new procedure on the 2008 SNA update process held in June 2021 and a second regional thematic webinar held in November 2021 which was focused on some of the major research areas of the SNA. The main objective of this thematic seminar is to provide a forum for all African countries to be engaged and participate directly in the global SNA update programme by discussing and commenting on the guidance notes (GNs) and participating in the assessment and experimental estimates (AEE). The online seminar will focus on five priority areas and thematic topics: communication, financial and payments systems, globalization, well-being and sustainability, and Islamic finance. On-line registration to participate in the meeting can be made by using the hyperlink provided below until 5 June 2022: https://indico.un.org/event/1001443/registrations/8015/
Description: The sixth meeting of the Beyond GDP Sprint of the United Nations Network of Economic Statisticians will discuss the summaries of the previous meetings and propose an outline of the next steps.
Description: The event is sponsored and hosted by the Government of New Zealand given the impressive steps taken to use broader measures of progress to formulate and monitor national development policy in the country. This side event shared different perspectives on how countries are developing and using measures which go beyond traditional GDP. They shared what motivated this shift as well as some of the challenges in getting policy makers to use measures of progress other than GDP.
Description: The fifth meeting of the Beyond GDP Sprint of the United Nations Network of Economic Statisticians will discuss initiatives to compile complementary measures to GDP using indices, indicator frameworks and the wealth and health approaches.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 30 Jan 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course aims at enhancing participants' theoretical and practical knowledge of National Accounts. They should become familiar with the system framework, the integration and balancing of source data and the presentation of national accounts data.
Target Audience: Junior statisticians of National Accounts (NA) departments or statisticians of other statistical departments dealing with NA statistics.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, teaches you how to compile timely, high quality national accounts statistics based on the system of national accounts (SNA) framework. The course introduces the sequence of national accounts, the accounting rules, and the key macroeconomic indicators in the SNA framework. You will learn about gross domestic product (GDP) - the main aggregate of the system, and how to compile consistent and internationally comparable measures of GDP according to the production, income, and expenditure approaches. The course also discusses in detail, how the SNA can be used to track an economy's production, consumption, and income and how to estimate volume measures of GDP.
Description: The fourth meeting of the Beyond GDP Sprint of the United Nations Network of Economic Statisticians will discuss the socio-demographic disaggregation of national accounts.
Description: The third meeting of the Beyond GDP Sprint of the United Nations Network of Economic Statisticians will discuss well-being initiatives associated with, and that extend, the System of National Accounts.
Description: The second meeting of the Beyond GDP Sprint of the United Nations Network of Economic Statisticians aims to share ideas, strategies, and examples from the ongoing work that is central to the SNA research agenda on distributional accounts.
2021 ICP for Asia and the Pacific - Twelfth Regional Online Workshop: National accounts framework and requirements for GDP expenditure weights for 2021 PPP computation
Description: This Stats Café will demonstrate the process of compiling Input-Output Tables and their application in policymaking. Presentations will showcase the process of Input-Output Tables by the National Statistical Offices of Indonesia and Malaysia. In addition, they will demonstrate a practical application of Input-Output Tables by the Planning Ministry of Indonesia that works closely with BPS-Indonesia. Overall, the café will provide a forum where all questions regarding Input-Output Table production and application in policymaking are addressed. , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events in 2021 Concluded events in 2020
Description: The first meeting of the Beyond GDP Sprint of the United Nations Network of Economic Statisticians will discuss the scope of modern capitals (including intangible capital, human capital, natural capital, etc.) and how to consistently measure these modern capitals and their resultant flows of benefits.
Description: Overview: Simultaneous global challenges (COVID-19, the climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, extreme inequalities, shifting globalization dynamics, financial volatility and vulnerability, rapid digital transformation and the digital and data divides – to name a few) have ignited a broad rethinking of business-as-usual practices in evaluating the wellbeing of people and planet. In this context, the United Nations is evaluating approaches to measure progress beyond GDP. This effort will feed into follow-up processes to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the proposed Summit of the Future to be held in conjunction with the seventy-eighth session of the General Assembly in 2023. Additionally, the knowledge will likely support ongoing related processes, in particular the multi-year update of the System of National Accounts by the Statistical Commission, to be completed by 2025. Scope and Purpose: This side event showcased work already underway within the statistical community on Measuring Progress Beyond GDP as well as exploring how to overcome barriers to using these types of data for decision making. Discussions from the side event will feed into deliberations under the “Beyond GDP” Sprint of agenda item 3(o) of the 53rd session of the United Nations Statistical Commission.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, teaches you how to compile timely, high quality national accounts statistics based on the system of national accounts (SNA) framework. The course introduces the sequence of national accounts, the accounting rules, and the key macroeconomic indicators in the SNA framework. You will learn about gross domestic product (GDP) - the main aggregate of the system, and how to compile consistent and internationally comparable measures of GDP according to the production, income, and expenditure approaches. The course also discusses in detail, how the SNA can be used to track an economy's production, consumption, and income and how to estimate volume measures of GDP.
Description: The webinar is organized to complement the global consultation for the Islamic Finance Task Team guidance note as part of the general process to update the System of National Accounts, 2008 (2008 SNA) and the Sixth edition of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (BPM6). The webinar aims to:
- Inform compilers about the progress with the Islamic Finance Guidance note under the SNA and BPM update programme
- Introduce the research topics of the Islamic Finance to foster informed participation in the global consultation on the Islamic Finance Guidance note
- Elicit views on the user demand on the new recommendations
- Explore potential volunteers for the early implementation of the new recommendations and the experimental testing.
You are welcome to attend the webinar by registering here by 13 December 2021.
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Description: The main objectives of the series of webinars were: Participants increase their knowledge on the 2008 SNA framework Participants share practical experience in producing and using national accounts statistics Participants get familiar and increase their knowledge on the SNA 2025 update National statistical systems increase their capacity to compile and disseminate national accounts statistics Основные задачи серии вебинаров: Участники углубляют свои знания о структуре СНС 2008. Участники делятся практическим опытом составления и использования статистики национальных счетов. Участники знакомятся c обновлением СНС 2025 и расширяют свои знания о нем. Национальные статистические системы расширяют свой потенциал по сбору и распространению статистических данных национальных счетов.
Description: The African Centre for Statistics (ACS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in collaboration with the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) will organize a virtual second regional thematic seminar on System of National Accounts (SNA) Update Programme from 17 to 18 November 2021. The regional thematic seminar is part of the follow-up actions recommended by the Global Consultative Group of Experts on National Accounts (AEG) responsible for updating the SNA. This follows the information seminar detailing the new procedure on the 2008 SNA update process held in June 2021. The main objective of this thematic seminar is to is to provide a forum for all African countries to be engaged and participate directly in the global SNA update programme by discussing and commenting on the guidance notes (GNs) and to foster their participation in the recommendations feasibility assessment and subsequent experimental estimates (AEE). The thematic seminar will be organised into the four themes of globalization, digitization, wellbeing and sustainability and the informal economy On-line registration to participate in the meeting can be made by using the hyperlink provided below until 15 November 2021: https://events.uneca.org/registration/register?eventId=a90ed4cb-ce37-ec11-80fa-0050569360fe
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 May 2021 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course aims at enhancing participants' theoretical and practical knowledge of National Accounts. They should become familiar with the system framework, the integration and balancing of source data and the presentation of national accounts data.
Target Audience: Junior statisticians of National Accounts (NA) departments or statisticians of other statistical departments dealing with NA statistics. ESTP Trainings are open to non-ESS members if capacity allows after ESS needs are fulfilled.
Description: This 2021 version of the seminar focuses primarily on the topics of the 2025 SNA update and the future of economic statistics, based on information on the status of the guidelines and the global consultation on topics such as welfare and sustainability, and the informal economy.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 May 2021 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Introducing to the theory and practice of temporal disaggregation, balancing and statistical reconciliation of systems of time series.
Target Audience: Statistical officers in charge to regular production of National Accounts quarterly series. ESTP Trainings are open to non-ESS members if capacity allows after ESS needs are fulfilled.
Description: This half-day one-week virtual course will be presented by the International Monetary Fund's Statistics Department. The course will be based on the System of National Accounts 2008 Manual (2008 SNA). The course will cover the following topics: national accounts concepts, methods, and framework; estimating Gross Domestic Product using the expenditure and production approach; interpretation of National Accounts Statistics; and price and volume measures. The course will feature interactive lectures and hands-on exercises that enable participants to operationalize what they learn. The main lectures and workshops include: (i) Overview of the System of National Accounts, (ii) Production accounts: measurement of output; intermediate consumption, and value added (gross domestic product (GDP), (iii) Gross Domestic Product by Expenditure, (iv) The sequence of accounts from the production account to balance sheets and (v) Preparation of GDP volume measures: double deflation; and volume extrapolation;
Description: This one-week customized training and technical assistance will be presented by an expert from the International Monetary Fund's Statistics Department. The course will be based on the System of National Accounts 2008 (SNA 2008) and the Quarterly National Accounts Manual, 2017. The course will cover the following topics: The scope, role and strategic issues of quarterly national accounts. Data sources for the production and expenditure approach. Strategies for selecting quarterly indicators. Establishing a quarterly processing system. Benchmarking techniques and software;. Seasonal adjustment. Price and volume measures. Chain-linking quarterly national accounts. Inventory valuation methods. Revision policy. Economic analysis of quarterly national accounts. The course will feature interactive lectures and hands-on exercises that will enable participants to operationalize what they learn.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, teaches you how to compile timely, high quality national accounts statistics based on the system of national accounts (SNA) framework. The course introduces the sequence of national accounts, the accounting rules, and the key macroeconomic indicators in the SNA framework. You will learn about gross domestic product (GDP) - the main aggregate of the system, and how to compile consistent and internationally comparable measures of GDP according to the production, income, and expenditure approaches. The course also discusses in detail, how the SNA can be used to track an economy's production, consumption, and income and how to estimate volume measures of GDP.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 04 Jan 2022 )
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Organizer(s): HSE University Russian Federation ESCAP SIAP
Description: The main objectives of this course are to provide deep knowledge about integrated transaction accountsintroduce the 2008 SNA-changes from 1993 SNAexplain the use of volume measures in national accounts and brief the participants about SDGs and SNA
Description: The Asia-Pacific Stats Café Series on "Emerging issues in Economic Statistics", will be held on Monday, 23 August 2021. In this Stats Café, we will discuss progress made by some countries to make estimates of digitilisation in their national accounts statistics.
Description: The Inception Regional Webinar on the System of National Accounts (SNA) update was held on Monday, 26 July 2021, 09:00 – 12:00 Hours, Bangkok time (GMT+7). Attendance and Evaluation Summary Concept note Agenda The purpose of the webinar was to achieve the following objectives and related documentation: Inform compilers about the progress with the SNA and BPM update programme Introduce the conceptual/compilation topics to foster informed participation in the global consultation on the guidance notes (GN) Collect and verify information of the baseline assessment (about the countries’ statistical capacity to implement the new recommendations) Elicit views on the user demand on the new recommendations Explore potential volunteers for the early implementation of the new recommendations Collect information about the countries’ implementation plans.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 04 Jan 2022 )
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Organizer(s): HSE University Russian Federation ESCAP SIAP
Description: The objective of this e-Learning Course is to provide an understanding of the basic concept and framework of the System of National Accounts (SNA 2008) and demonstrate methods and techniques for the compilation of the integrated transaction accounts.Цель этого электронного курса обучения - дать понимание основной концепции и структуры Системы национальных счетов (СНС 2008) и продемонстрировать методы и приемы составления интегрированных счетов операций. Он предназначен для государственных статистиков младшего и среднего звеназнакомых с СНС или участвующих в сборе и компиляции статистических 2 данныхподдерживающих составление национальных счетов. Этот курс может оказаться полезным для пользователей статистики национальных счетовне входящих в состав агентстваили техкто заинтересован в работе в этой области в будущем.
The Sequence of Accounts and the Recording of COVID-19 Related Initiatives
05 Jul 2021 – 08 Jul 2021
Source: IMF Metac (Data extracted on: 27 Sep 2021 )
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Organizer(s): IMF Metac CEF
Description: METAC delivered this four-day course remotely, with the CEF. Its purpose is improving the capacity to compile the full sequence of accounts in the Middle East and North Africa region, reflecting international standards and best practices. It was attended by 26 participants from 13 countries, and covered the following topics: (i) overview of the sequence of accounts; (ii) current and capital accounts; (iii) financial and balance sheet accounts; (iv) institutional arrangements, uses, and data sources; (v) recording COVID-19 related initiatives in the sequence of accounts.
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CEF webinar on national accounts
05 Jul 2021 – 08 Jul 2021
Source: IMF Metac (Data extracted on: 03 May 2022 )
Description: This webinar is the first in a series of regional seminars within the framework of the updating process of the System National Account (SNA) and Balance of Payments Manual (BPM) and is organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with the Commission. Economic for...
Title in Spanish: Seminario web sobre el Sistema de Cuentas Nacionales - Hacia el SCN 2025
Organizer(s): UNSD ECLAC
Description: Este seminario web es el primero de una serie de seminarios regionales en el marco del proceso de actualización del Sistema de Cuentas nacionales (SCN) 2008, y son organizados por la División de Estadística de las Naciones Unidas (UNSD), en colaboración con la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
Description: The African Centre for Statistics (ACS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in collaboration with the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) will organize a regional seminar on System of National Accounts (SNA) Update Programme on 17 June 2021. The main objective of this seminar is to inform Member States the status and the process of updating the System of National Accounts (SNA), the scope of the research under development, and the experimental implementation component of the new methodological guidelines at the country level. Staff who work in the area of national accounts and other economic statistics of national statistical offices of member States, as well as sub-regional and regional organizations will participate in the regional seminar. On-line registration to participate in the meeting can be made by using the hyperlink provided below until 14 June 2021: https://events.uneca.org/registration/register?eventId=7a45b1df-24c2-eb11-80ef-0050569360fe
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, teaches you how to compile timely, high quality national accounts statistics based on the system of national accounts (SNA) framework. The course introduces the sequence of national accounts, the accounting rules, and the key macroeconomic indicators in the SNA framework. You will learn about gross domestic product (GDP) - the main aggregate of the system, and how to compile consistent and internationally comparable measures of GDP according to the production, income, and expenditure approaches. The course also discusses in detail, how the SNA can be used to track an economy's production, consumption, and income and how to estimate volume measures of GDP.
Title in Spanish: Reunión técnica sobre requisitos de datos de cuentas nacionales para el Programa de Comparación Internacional (PCI), Ciclo 2021 - América Latina
Organizer(s): ECLAC
Description: Reunión virtual organizada por la CEPAL en su calidad de Coordinador Regional del PCI para América Latina y el Caribe.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 21 Dec 2020 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course aims at enhancing participants' theoretical and practical knowledge of National Accounts. They should become familiar with the system framework, the integration and balancing of source data and the presentation of national accounts data.
Target Audience: Junior statisticians of National Accounts (NA) departments or statisticians of other statistical departments dealing with NA statistics. ESTP Trainings are open to non-ESS members if capacity allows after ESS needs are fulfilled.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in the compilation of annual gross domestic product both at current prices and in volume terms using the production and expenditure approaches, in support of better policy-making and surveillance. The course starts with an overview of the system of national accounts, presenting the sequence of accounts for transactions and other flows as well as balance sheets, with a focus on the framework of the 2008 SNA. It covers the main concepts involving transactions, other economic flows, stocks, institutional units, classifications, and main macroeconomic aggregates measured by the system. The main lectures and workshops include: sessions on the production account covering the definition and measurement of output, intermediate consumption, and value added; valuation issues; and the treatment of particular industries; source data and issues in the compilation of GDP by production and expenditure approaches; deflators and derivation of volume measures of GDP; and specific issues related to goods and services transactions, including supply and use framework, inventory valuation adjustment, consumption of fixed capital, non-observed and informal economy, global supply chains, and the digital economy. Emphasis is also placed on sharing country experiences among the participants.
Description: IMF member countries are encouraged to start compilation of high frequency data to monitor the impact of the pandemic and to monitor the strength of the recovery of economic activities. The quality of these statistics is paramount for decision and policy making in all AFRITAC East countries.
Description: This one-week course will cover Supply and Use Tables (SUT), Input-Output Tables (IOT) and extensions. The following topics will be covered: Overview of SUT and Their Structure; Data Sources and Practical Compilation Aspects of SUT; Balancing the SUT; Transforming SUT into IOT; and Impact Modeling Using IOT. The course will be delivered virtually, for three hours per day from February 8th to 12th. The course will feature interactive lectures and hands-on exercises that enable participants to operationalize what they learn.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, offers an opportunity for thorough understanding of concepts, sources of data, and compilation techniques for producing quarterly national accounts statistics. The course is based on the IMF Quarterly National Accounts Manual (2017 Edition) and oriented to national accounts compilers from countries that are improving, developing, or planning to develop quarterly national accounts (QNA). The course covers both theoretical and practical compilation issues, specifically the following main topics: the scope and role of QNA; data sources for compiling quarterly GDP estimates (mainly using production and expenditure approaches); editing procedures and dealing with indicators; benchmarking techniques for combining quarterly indicators with annual estimates; seasonal adjustments; price and volume measures; chain-linking techniques for compiling QNA time series; early estimates of quarterly GDP; other specific QNA issues; and revision policy and dissemination practices.The course consists of lectures, workshops, and small group discussions.
Description: On this occasion, a space has been designated for the presentation of the integrated economic statistics systems of the region and a session to review the actions of the national accounts offices in the context of the COVID19 pandemic.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 17 Nov 2020 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat GOPA
Description: The course will provide an overview of the necessary steps in compiling a set of Supply Use Tables (SUTs) and their role in balancing national accounts. The course will present how to transform the Use matrix into symmetric form suitable for economic analysis. The second objective is to provide an introduction to input-output analysis, and how to use this analysis to support economic structural analysis and policy briefing. The learning will be reinforced by group discussion and practical exercises.
Target Audience: Statistical Office staff working in Economic Statistics units, who are interested in the principles of compiling Supply Use Tables (SUTs) according to ESA2010 and understanding the concepts and potential use of Input-Output analysis for empirical investigations of significant political relevance. ESTP Trainings are open to non-ESS members if capacity allows after ESS needs are fulfilled.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical issues related to the compilation of accumulation accounts (capital accounts, financial accounts, other changes in volume of assets accounts, and revaluation accounts) and balance sheets according to institutional sectors. The course is based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts, 2008 (2008 SNA). The aim of the course is to provide participants with the necessary skills to compile the sectoral accumulation accounts and the balance sheets. The course consists of lectures covering conceptual and methodological issues as well as workshops sessions on practical compilation issues. The lectures provide a thorough review of the methodological framework, concepts, and definitions relating to sectoral accumulation accounts and balance sheets, examine potential data sources for their compilation, and illustrate possible compilation techniques and procedures. The course also provides a forum for participants to share country practices and experiences relating to the compilation of sectoral accumulation accounts and balance sheets.
Target Audience: Officials whose main responsibility is compiling national accounts and financial accounts statistics (specifically sectoral accounts and accounts on a from-whom-to-whom basis), who are employed with national statistical agencies and central banks.
Title in Spanish: Cuarta videoconferencia sobre medidas para enfrentar los efectos de la pandemia COVID-19 sobre el levantamiento de precios y cuentas nacionales
Organizer(s): ECLAC INE Chile
Description: En el contexto de las charlas virtuales Conectados RTC, el INE de Chile y la División de Estadísticas de CEPAL invitan a participar en esta serie de videoconferencias que buscan evaluar en conjunto los efectos que está teniendo la pandemia COVID-19 sobre las operaciones estadísticas de la región.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 17 Nov 2020 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat GOPA
Description: The course will cover in depth the conceptual framework used to compile the national accounts in the European context. The focus will be on concepts, definitions and classifications of the Systems of National Accounts (ESA2010, SNA 2008). This will include the sector accounts and Supply and Use Tables – their compilation and their role in balancing the accounts. It will provide a practical approach to the implementation of the international standards by providing exercise at regular intervals throughout the course to ensure learning through doing. The learning will be reinforced by group discussion and presentations. The course will also introduce the quarterly national accounts, satellite accounts and regional accounts. The course will describe current activities in a European context to go “beyond GDP” and examine how other measurement systems can use the national accounts framework to bring an accounting structure to areas outside the domain of national accounts.
Target Audience: Statisticians of National Accounts compilation units, with more than one year’s experience in the field of national accounts or related economic statistics, wishing to understand in some depth the concepts, sources and methods used to compile the national accounts. ESTP Trainings are open to non-ESS members if capacity allows after ESS needs are fulfilled.
Description: The webinar is primarily designed for compilers of national accounts statistics for AFRITAC East member countries. The webinar will include a 40-minute presentation from Mr. Anthony Silungwe, IMF economist and expert on national accounts. It will be followed by a question and answer session to address issues raised by participants.
Description: About the session Economic, Environment and Satellite Accounts align well with the Asia and the Pacific’s strategies for advancing official statistics for the 2030 Agenda the collective vision and framework for action by the Asia Pacific statistical community, which focuses on strengthening statistical capacity to produce, disseminate and use official statistics through five action areas, and the Declaration on Navigating Policy with Data to Leave No One Behind, as their use and production requires a strong national statistical system and government support and engagement As a priority area identified in the forthcoming 7 th session of the Committee on Statistics, the panel discussions will focus on global and regional initiatives and the current efforts in progressing economic, environmental and satellite accounts in the region The aim is to share experiences and determine priority actions for member States, UN entities and development partners on how regional collaboration on accounts may support and strengthen national efforts to advance accounting in Asia and the Pacific. Panelists Mr. Mohd Uzir Mahidin, PhD, Chief Statistician, Department of Statistics Malaysia Mr. Ben Milligan,PhD, Secretariat Director, Global Ocean Accounts Partnership Mr. Leota Aliielua Salani, Assistant CEO, National Accounts & Finance, Statistics Division, Samoa Bureau of Statistics Ms. Vivian R. Ilarina, Assistant National Statistician, Macroeconomic Accounts Service, Philippine Statistics Authority Moderators Ms Gemma Van Halderen, Director, Statistics Division ESCAP Ms. Rikke Munk Hansen, Chief, Economic and Environment Statistics Section, Statistics Division, ESCAP --------------------- >> See others Asia-Pacific Stats Café series
Description: The Webinar provides guidance to national statistical organizations aimed to help them to ensure the continued publication of their national accounts in the face of challenges resulting from measures implemented to contain COVID-19.
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Source: IMF Metac (Data extracted on: 16 Nov 2020 )
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Description: At this webinar, topics presented and discussed included challenges and solutions related to missing or late source data, restrictions to movement and reduced accessibility to workplaces, volatility in primary statistics, and communications with users of national accounts. The webinar was attended by 37 participants from 11 METAC members (Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, West Bank and Gaza, Sudan, and Syria).
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Intermediate-level e-learning Course on System of National Accounts (SNA): Integrated Transaction Accounts
29 Jun 2020 – 21 Aug 2020
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 06 Aug 2020 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP Topics:
Recording COVID-19 Related Government Initiatives in the National Accounts
29 Jun 2020 – 29 Jun 2020
Source: IMF Metac (Data extracted on: 16 Nov 2020 )
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Description: This webinar covered methods on how to record COVID-19-related government policy interventions in the national accounts, to ensure comprehensiveness and accuracy in GDP estimates, both in aggregate and within the key components of GDP. It presented a range of examples taken from the IMF COVID-19 policy tracker in the fiscal and monetary areas, which can be found here. Countries raised questions regarding their own policy interventions and were able to compare their experiences to others in the region and elsewhere. It is worth noting that proper recording of policy interventions goes beyond the accuracy of GDP estimates, and touches on issues of transparency in the conduct of macroeconomic policy to ensure effectiveness and efficiency of government interventions.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 25 Nov 2019 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat GOPA
Description: The course will introduce the conceptual framework used to compile the national accounts in the European context. The main focus will be on concepts, definitions and classifications of the Systems of National Accounts (ESA2010, SNA 2008). It will provide a practical approach to the implementation of the international standards by providing exercise at regular intervals throughout the course to ensure learning through doing. The learning will be reinforced by group discussion and presentation. The course will also introduce quarterly national accounts, supply-use tables and associated satellite accounts as well as regional accounts. The course will describe current activities in a European context to go “beyond GDP” and examine how other measurement systems can use the national accounts framework to bring an accounting structure to areas outside the domain of national accounts.
Target Audience: Junior statisticians of National Accounts compilation units, or statisticians of other units which either supply data or use the end-products of the national accounts, with an interest in understanding the concepts, sources and methods used to compile the national accounts. ESTP Trainings are open to non-ESS members if capacity allows after ESS needs are fulfilled.
Description: This course, presented by the IMF Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects of compiling national accounts statistics based on the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures on methodological and compilation issues covered in the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling accounts. The purpose of the course is to train participants in how to compile annual GDP both at current prices and in volume terms using the production and expenditure approaches. The course starts with an overview of the system of national accounts, presenting the sequence of accounts for transactions and other flows as well as balance sheets, based on the 2008 SNA. It covers the main concepts related to transactions, other economic flows, stocks, institutional units, classifications, and the main macroeconomic aggregates measured by the system.The main lectures and workshops cover the production account, covering definition and measurement of output, intermediate consumption, and value added; valuation issues; and the treatment of particular industries; source data and issues in the compilation of GDP using production and expenditure approaches; deflators and derivation of volume measures of GDP; and specific issues related to goods and services transactions, including supply and use framework, inventory valuation adjustment, consumption of fixed capital, and the nonobserved and informal economy. Sharing country experiences among the participants is also emphasized.
Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts data.
Description: This one-week course will be presented by experts from the International Monetary Fund's Statistics Department. The course will be based on the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA) and the Quarterly National Accounts Manual, 2017. The course will cover the following topics: national accounts concepts, methods, and framework; estimating Gross Domestic Product using the expenditure and production approach; interpretation of National Accounts Statistics; supply and use tables; data sources and indicators; price and volume measures; and revision policies. The course will feature interactive lectures and hands-on exercises that enable participants to operationalize what they learn. The main lectures and workshops include: (i) Overview of the System of National Accounts.(ii) Production accounts: measurement of output; intermediate consumption, and value added (gross domestic product (GDP)).(iii) Gross Domestic Product by Expenditure.(iv) The sequence of accounts from the production account to balance sheets.(v) Supply and use tables.(vi) Preparation of GDP volume measures: double deflation; volume extrapolation; and introduction to chain linking.(vii) An overview of GDP revisions and rebasing.
Target Audience: The workshop is intended for government officials who are integrally involved in the compilation of national accounts statistics, or, would benefit from the knowledge of the concepts, principles, sources, and methods used to compile National Accounts Statistics. As this training is broad-based, it is applicable for relatively new officials in the area of National Accounts, or users within Central Banks, Finance and Economic Planning.
Source: IMF Metac (Data extracted on: 19 Feb 2020 )
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Organizer(s): IMF Metac IMF CEF
Description: Organized jointly with the CEF, this workshop was attended by 34 participants from 15 countries (12 METAC). It covered international standards and best practices in producing benchmark GDP estimates through the compilation of supply, use, and input-output tables. It facilitated peer-to-peer discussions of countries’ practices, challenges and solutions, and included a substantial practical component.
Description: The management of natural resources is an important function of government, and statistics are needed to support analysis of the macroeconomic impacts of natural resources and the formulation of an appropriate macroeconomic policy mix. Fluctuations in government revenues, exports, employment, and national income caused by changes in the output and prices of natural resources have major macroeconomic and fiscal implications. Sound policymaking when such risks are present requires reliable, timely, and complete coverage of relevant activity in the national accounts and analytical measures to assess the macroeconomic effects. This regional workshop aims to ensure national accounts data are compiled with comprehensive and technically sound data for natural resources. It will also support compilation of the National Accounts Template Tables specified by the Guide to Analyze Natural Resources in the National Accounts.
Target Audience: Country officials from the Finance Ministries, Central Banks, and Statistical Offices responsible for compiling national accounts in MNRW eligible countries in the region.
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: The scope, role and strategic issues on GDP rebasing; choosing the new base year; constructing new base year estimates using supply and use tables; preparing documentation on new base year estimates; backcasting the new GDP series; preparing documentation and metadata on backcasting methods. 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) When and why to conduct a rebasing exercise.2) Data requirements to carry out rebasing.3) Supply and Use Tables as a method of creating new base year estimates. 4) Backcasting and extrapolating new base year estimates using recompilation, splicing and residual estimation. 5) Communication and publication strategies of the rebased series. 6) Examples of rebasing from various statistical offices.
Target Audience: The workshop is intended for national accounts compilers who will likely be involved in a GDP rebasing exercise in the next two to three years.
Description: Staff of statistical institutions will be invited to discuss and reach agreement on the implementation of key international best practices and standards in order to improve consistency in the compilation of national accounts statistics within the region.
Title in French: Atelier sur l'élaboration des comptes nationaux
Organizer(s): IMF AI Generated
Description: Afin d’engager les Etats dans le calcul des comptes nationaux trimestriels, l’AFRITAC de l’Ouest organise régulièrement des ateliers sur les comptes nationaux trimestriels. Cet atelier s’inscrit dans ce cadre après celui d’Abidjan en avril 2018 et de Bamako en janvier 2015. Il comprendra des sessions théoriques et pratiques ainsi qu’un volet partage d’expérience des pays sur la construction d’indicateurs de haute fréquence.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Jun 2019 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Sogeti
Description: The course will broaden and in-deep the theoretical and practical knowledge of National Accounts approaches. The main focus will be on concepts and definitions of NA and discussions on General features of the System of National Accounts (SNA, ESA), basic concepts, supply and Use Tables, non-financial sector accounts and financial sector accounts. The course will further develop Quarterly national accounts, Satellite Accounts as well as Regional Accounts.
Target Audience: Statisticians of National Accounts departments, with more than one year’s experience in the statistical field, wishing to understand better the overall system of National Accounts and its critical issues. ESTP Trainings are open to non-ESS members if capacity allows after ESS needs are fulfilled.
Title in French: Examen de la nouvelle série des comptes nationaux conforme au SCN 2008
Organizer(s): IMF AI Generated
Description: L'appui permettra de revoir et proposer des améliorations de la méthodologie de rétropolation proposée par l’INS. Les travaux aideront à produire une note analysant la série des comptes nationaux 2015 – 2018 et une série des comptes nationaux de qualité.
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Regional seminar on compilation and application of environmentally -extended supply and use tables (EE-SUTs)
Source: IMF Sarttac (Data extracted on: 01 Dec 2021 )
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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.
Description: This one-week course, presented by the IMF's Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in the compilation of annual gross domestic product both at current prices and in volume terms using the production and expenditure approaches.The course starts with an overview of the system of national accounts presenting the sequence of accounts for transactions and other flows as well as balance sheets with a focus on the framework of the 2008 SNA. It will cover the main concepts involving transactions, other economic flows, stocks, institutional units, classifications, and main macroeconomic aggregates measured by the system. The main lectures and workshops include: (i) sessions on the production account covering the definition and measurement of output, intermediate consumption, and value added; valuation issues; and the treatment of particular industries; (ii) source data and issues in the compilation of GDP by production and expenditure approaches (iii) deflators and derivation of volume measures of GDP; and (iv) specific issues related to goods and services transactions, including supply and use framework, inventory valuation adjustment, consumption of fixed capital, non-observed and informal economy. Emphasis is also placed on sharing country experiences among the participants.
Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts data.
Title in French: Séminaire sur les comptes nationaux à Yaoundé
Organizer(s): IMF Afritac Centre
Description: Depuis l’adoption publication du SCN 2008, il y quelques années, notre continent s’est doté d’une stratégie continentale pour la mise en œuvre du SCN 2008. Des travaux remarquables ont été entrepris dans ce cadre au niveau continental, régional, sous régional et national mais à ce jour, même s’il faut se féliciter des résultats obtenus par quelques pays, force est de constater que la plupart des pays au sud du Sahara n’ont pas encore réussi à migrer au SCN 2008 et que la situation est moins reluisante pour les pays de l’Afrique centrale où peu de pays ont franchi les premières étapes retenues pour ce passage au SCN 2008. Pour remédier à cette situation, une trentaine de cadres de la région ont renforcé leurs capacités sur les travaux de changement d’année de base des comptes nationaux et la migration au Système de comptabilité nationale 2008 (SCN 2008). Le séminaire a présenté les améliorations méthodologiques du SCN 2008 par rapport au SCN 1993 et a mis un accent particulier sur la qualité des données des enquêtes nécessaires pour le rebasage des comptes nationaux et leur évaluation dans le cadre des équilibres ressources emplois (ERE).
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Jun 2019 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: The goal of this activity is to provide participants with basic knowledge about the syntax and basis of the R programming language and to provide an overview of the main packages which are important for the statistical production process. The activity will pay special attention to these packages devoted to management of large databases and the analysis of complex surveys.
Target Audience: Statistical production units and methodologist of NSIs. ESTP Trainings are open to non-ESS members if capacity allows after ESS needs are fulfilled.
Source: GCC Stat (Data extracted on: 17 May 2019 )
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Organizer(s): GCC Stat
Description: The main objectives of the workshop are: * Strengthen the capacities of the participants in Supply and Use Tables; * Improve the quality of basic statistics and national accounts through using SUT as a benchmark; * Promote statistical cooperation within the GCC region, including the common classifications of products and industries for the region.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Jun 2019 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Sogeti
Description: The course will introduce the theoretical and practical knowledge of National Accounts approaches. The main focus will be on concepts and definitions of NA and discussions on General features of the System of National Accounts (SNA, ESA), basic concepts, supply and Use Tables, non-financial sector accounts and financial sector accounts. The course will introduce Quarterly national accounts, Satellite Accounts as well as Regional Accounts. The course will explore the European perspective and a view on harmonisation efforts within Europe.
Target Audience: Junior statisticians of National Accounts (NA) departments or statisticians of other statistical departments dealing with NA statistics and wishing to understand better the system and overall framework of NA. ESTP Trainings are open to non-ESS members if capacity allows after ESS needs are fulfilled.
Description: The management of natural resources is an important function of government, and statistics are needed to support analysis of the macroeconomic impacts of natural resources and the formulation of an appropriate macroeconomic policy mix. Fluctuations in government revenues, exports, employment, and national income caused by changes in the output and prices of natural resources have major macroeconomic and fiscal implications. Sound policymaking when such risks are present requires reliable, timely, and complete coverage of relevant activity in the national accounts and analytical measures to assess the macroeconomic effects. This regional workshop aims to ensure national accounts data are compiled with comprehensive and technically sound data for natural resources. It will also support compilation of the National Accounts Template Tables specified by the Guide to Analyze Natural Resources in the National Accounts.
Target Audience: Country officials from the National Statistics Office responsible for compiling national accounts in MNRW eligible countries in the region.
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Description: This one-week course will be presented by experts from the International Monetary Fund’s Statistics Department. The course will be based on the System of National Accounts 2008 (SNA 2008) and the Quarterly National Accounts Manual, 2017. The course will cover the following topics:
Description: The Replication Study Communication Workshop was held in Bangkok, from 4 to 8 March 2019. The six national teams joined the meeting to prepare the first draft of their replication study. The countries and project topics are: Bhutan – Producing Import and Export Price Indices (XMPI) in Bhutan (English) Cambodia – Supply Use Table and GDP Benchmarks Lao PDR – Statistical Law Maldives – Reviewing the National Statistical System of the Maldives 2020 (English) Myanmar – Developing a Statistical Business Register (SBR) in Myanmar (English | Burmese) Viet Nam – Use of unit record tax data in Statistical Business Register The workshop objectives were: Develop skills in written and oral communication, including presentation skills through theory, examples and practice. Allow national teams a dedicated block of time to prepare second and third drafts of their study with support from regional experts. Discuss options and modalities for presenting the studies at Asia-Pacific Economic Statistics Week. Develop an action plan for completing the studies and presentation materials. Documents List of participants Concept note Agenda Presentations Workshop presentation
Description: This course, presented by the IMF Statistics Department, offers an opportunity for thorough understanding of concepts, sources of data, and compilation techniques for producing quarterly national accounts statistics. The course is based on the IMF Quarterly National Accounts Manual (2017 Edition) and is oriented to national accounts compilers from countries that are improving, developing, or planning to develop quarterly national accounts (QNA). The course covers both theoretical and practical compilation issues, specifically the following main topics: * scope and role of QNA; * data sources for compiling quarterly GDP estimates (mainly using production and expenditure approaches); * editing procedures and dealing with indicators; * benchmarking techniques for combining quarterly indicators with annual estimates; * seasonal adjustments; * price and volume measures; * chain-linking techniques for compiling QNA time series; * early estimates of quarterly GDP; * other specific QNA issues; and * revision policy and dissemination practices. The course consists of lectures, workshops, and small group discussions.
Target Audience: Officials responsible for compiling national accounts statistics.
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