Posted: August 11th, 2016

demonstrate your basic skills related to access the macroeconomic data and interpret the key aggregate trends

The objective of this assignment is to demonstrate your basic skills related to access the macroeconomic data and interpret the key aggregate trends. The Student is expected to perform a basic data analysis using graphs/charts. The student should show his understandings related to interpretation and presentation of sectoral value added growth trends. This assignment contributes 20% to the overall marks. As this is your first assignment, the weightage on presentation would be less. Each student would have ONLY 5 mins to present his/her work in front of the whole class. Your slides should not be more than four at all. The student should get the data from the available sources, as mentioned below. You should show how different sectors (i.e., agriculture, industry and services) are performing over time. The student should also conduct some research and see how economists critically analyse the cross sectoral valued added growth. The student must summarize his main findings using charts/graphs and tables. The good assignment would reveal your ability to identify macroeconomic principles and their applications with appropriate use of examples and graphs. Download the data on Australian cross-sectoral value added growth and use Excel to make the charts/graphs. Copy the charts/graphs to your word file. In analysing the data, explain the trend of curves and important factors behind the movements/shifts of these curve