Managing census complexity through highly integrated web systems

Federico Benassi (), Mauro Bruno (), Maura Giacummo (), Marco Silipo (), Giulia Vaste () and Donatella Zindato ()
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Federico Benassi: Italian National Institute of Statistics
Mauro Bruno: Italian National Institute of Statistics
Maura Giacummo: Italian National Institute of Statistics
Marco Silipo: Italian National Institute of Statistics
Giulia Vaste: Italian National Institute of Statistics
Donatella Zindato: Italian National Institute of Statistics

Rivista di statistica ufficiale, 2014, vol. 16, issue 3, 43-59

Abstract: During 2011 General Population and Housing Census methodological innovations towards the planning of a register-based census were introduced. Such innovations allowed to reach a satisfactory cost-benefit balance but increased the survey complexity and the risk of errors.Istat focus on web technologies was aimed at performing an innovative census, both in terms of methodology and costs and of data dissemination timeliness. This paper shows how a highly integrated web information system was used to manage a census workflow involving several actors and multiple phases and integrating different data sources. The success of 2011 Census led Istat to adopt such technological infrastructure as the core of the ‘Continuous General Population and Housing Census’.

Keywords: register-supported census; multimode data collection; survey management system. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C83 C88 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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