Macroeconomic statistics

The main objective of this course was to develop the knowledge and skills of participants on the compilation and dissemination of supply and use tables. Supply and Use tables serve as the basis for compilation of a range of accounts such as regional accounts, environments accounts labour accounts, tourism accounts and are used to validate / improve estimates of GDP. In the present context, these are also used for measuring the effect of globalization, digitization and sustainable development including wellbeing.

The The course is designed to enhance the capacity of participating countries to: 
a) Apply best international practices for the production of service statistics;; 
b) Develop practical tools and adopt effective methods to generate short term macro-economic indicators to provide timely information for policy monitoring. 

The The course is designed to enhance the capacity of participating countries to: 
a) Rationalize data sources for economic statistics and understand the interlinkages between the various data collections and compilations; 
b) Plan for effective economic census/enterprise survey questionnaires and tabulation plans; 
c) Plan for the use of economic census results for other economic data collections and in the compilation of national accounts.

The Regional Workshop on Measuring the Informal Sector and Non-observed Economy will be held by the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP), a regional institution of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), from 4 to 7 October 2015 in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. The workshop will be conducted in collaboration with the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) and the Statistical Centre of Iran (SCI), Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

(a) Apply SNA 2008 concepts and definitions in the compilation of national accounts statistics and
(b) Expand and increase exhaustiveness in the coverage of GDP estimates in national accounts statistics.