NTA Training Workshops on Increasing Technical Capacity, Kathmandu, Nepal, 16-20, 2016

KTM2016

About the Workshop

Host Institution: Central Bureau of Statistics, Nepal

The workshop is intended for researchers who are new or relatively new to NTA. The focus is on learning the basic technical aspects of NTA and constructing NTA for a single year. This workshop will also review existing knowledge about demographic dividends, including what is known about the channel of influence from population change to economic growth, and helps participants develop and apply research protocol for studying the links between population and economic change more broadly.

Agenda

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May 16

AM

08:40 - 09:00 Registration

09:00 - 09:20 Welcoming Remarks by UNFPA, EWC, CBS

09:20 - 10:30 Introduction to NTA by SH Lee KTM2016 Intro

10:50 - 12:30 Data and Estimation by SH Lee KTM2016 Data and Estimation

PM

12:15 - 12:30 Photo session

01:30 - 02:30 Labor Income by SH Lee, M. Abrigo KTM2016 LCD

02:30 - 05:00 Hands-on work KTM2016 YL-example .do file

May 17

AM

09:00 - 10:30 Adjusting and smoothing by M. Abrigo

10:50 - 12:30 Hands-on work

PM

01:30 - 03:00 Expenditure/Analyzing the household by SH Lee, M. Abrigo

03:20 - 05:00 Hands-on work KTM2016 CF-example .do file

May 18

AM

09:00 - 10:30 Expenditure/Analyzing the household (cont’d)

10:50 - 12:30 Hands-on work KTM2016 CG-example .xlsx file

PM

01:30 - 03:00 Macro-economy and aggregate controls AMason presentation in Beijing NTA 2014

03:20 - 05:00 Hands-on work KTM2016 adjust to macro-example .xlsx file

May 19

AM

09:00 - 12:30 Methodology Review & Hands-on work

PM

01:30 - 02:00 Demographic Dividend

02:00 - 05:00 Hands-on work

May 20

AM

09:00 - 12:30 Hands-on work and preparing presentations

PM

01:30 - 04:00 Country team Presentations (30 minutes each)

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