E-learning Course on Integrated Economic Statistics to support 2008 SNA implementation

Integrated Economic Statistics

The course will provide a strong foundation for the practical understanding and application of the 2008 System of National Accounts methods for specific topics. The objectives of the training program are (i) rationalize data sources for economic statistics and understand the inter-linkages between the various data collections and compilations (ii) plan for effective economic census questionnaires and tabulation plans and (iii) plan for the use of economic census results for other economic data collections and in the compilation of national accounts.
It is designed for mid-to-senior level national accounts statisticians and similar level statisticians in charge of designing, processing and disseminating economic data collections. Those with substantial experience in compilation of national accounts and designing of economic censuses and surveys may find this course useful for updating their knowledge on statistical principles of national accounting and associated data sources.

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Materials
Module 1: A Review of Economic Censuses and their Role in National Economic Statistics
- Concept of Economic Census
- Survey of Country Practice

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Module 2: Fundamental Principles of Questionnaire Design- Economic Census / Surveys
- Questionnaire Design
- Developing Questions and kind of Response
- Structure of Questionnaire
- Economic Surveys
- Measuring Output and Compensation of Employees 		 

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   Download Exercises: Questionnaire Design

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Module 3: Role of the Statistical Business Registers
SBRs and Economic Census
- Data Sources
- Statistical Business Registers
- Using Economic Census

 

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Module 4: Sector Accounts
- Structure and sequence of the Accounts
- Institutional Units and Sectors
- The Non-Financial Account
- The Financial Account 		 

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Module 5: Production Account and Generation of Income Account
- Economic Assets
- Economic Flows
- Transactions
- Valuation of Transactions
- Main Identities and Sequence of Accounts 		 

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   Download Exercises: Compilation Production and Generation of Income Account

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   Solutions to Exercise

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Module 6: Primary Income- its distribution and Use
- Primary income and its distribution
- Secondary distribution and redistribution of Income
- Social transfers in kind
- Rerouting of insurance related transctions
- Use of Income
- Related Accounts 		 

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   Module6 Exercises: Compiling Accounts
- Household Accounts
- Non-financial Corporate Accounts
- Government Accounts

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Module7: Basic principles for supply and use tables
Simplified supply and use tables
- Valuation of transactions
- Use tables at basic prices
- Three measures of GDP 		 

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   Download Exercises: Supply and Use TableFile

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Module 8: Structure of the UK Economic Statistics Infrastructure
Quarterly Accounts
- Short-term output indicators
- Quarterly GDP statistics
- Reliability of quarterly GDP
Annual Accounts
-The measure of GDP and the 3 approaches
-The role of Supply and use tables
- Revision analysis 		 

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Module 9: Price and Volume Measures
- Price and Volume
- Developing relevant deflator
- Quality change in price indices
- Price and Volume Indices
- Chain-linking and re-referencing 		 

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Module 10: Benchmarking
ntroduction to benchmark techniques
- Denton Methods
- Use of XLPBM or BENCH
- Summary and practical exercises 		 

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   Download Exercises: Benchmarking using IMF’s XLPBM excel add-in or excel embedded macro (BENCH)
Part 1: Benchmarking a quarterly indicator to an annual series,
Part 2: Benchmarking an annual deflator to a quarterly price series
Part 3: Using XLPBM to spline an annual series

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   Download Exercise Benchmarking
Part1: Example of the use of XLPBM to benchmark quarterly indicators to annual 'benchmark' data
Part2: Example of the use of XLPBM to benchmark a quarterly price index to an annual deflator
Part3: Example of a simple and a seasonal spline

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   Download Solutions: Benchmarking exercises Part 1 to 3

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