Trusted Smart Statistics: new statistics for decision makers. The Istat’s experience

This paper describes the path followed by the European Statistical System and the Italian Statistical Institute to respond to changes due to the ongoing digital transformation. The digitalization of most daily activities has led to an enormous production of new data, prompting National Statistic Institutes (NSIs) to integrate these new sources within their production processes in order to: (i) enrich their information offerings; (ii) respond to the growing needs of stakeholders; (iii) support decision-making processes in a more efficient way. To achieve these results, NSIs must adapt their organizational, methodological and research paradigms to produce innovative outputs that make structured use of big data. These outputs, called Trusted Smart Statistics (TSS), represent NSIs' response to the changes taking place inside and outside the Institutes.