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The Planning and Statistics Authority (PSA) has released the twenty seventh issue of the quarterly publication “Window on Economic Statistics of Qatar”.
The reference quarter of this issue is the fourth quarter of 2018(Q4 2018). All the latest available macro-economic indicators, relating to National Accounts, Prices, Public Finance, and the Balance of Payments have been assembled in a single report.
It is a very handy report and is meant to help diverse users, in particular, policy and decision makers.

This publication comprises three parts:
- Part 1 presents a dashboard comparing the economic performance of Qatar with other economies and regions, in terms of three indicators: (i) Real GDP annual growth rate, (ii) CPI (y-o-y) change and (iii) Current Account Balance as percentage of GDP, as well as data series (quarterly and annual) on some thirty economic indicators.
 
- Part 2 presents an analysis of the quarterly statistics relating to GDP, CPI, PPI, Exports and Imports and compares the performance in the fourth quarter of 2018 with that of the corresponding quarter of 2017 and, with that of the previous quarter (Q3, 2018).

- Part 3 contains articles on specific topics. The title of the article presented in this issue is " A Brief on Statistical Business Register (SBR) ". This article presents a simplified definition of the SBR and describes the sources on which the SBR is based. In addition, the article addresses the main purposes and components of the SBR and a brief description of the stages of SBR preparation as well as the most important challenges that might be encountered while creating the SBR.   

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