THE STATISTICAL REGISTER FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS: THE REFERENCE FRAMEWORK AND SOME METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS

During the last decade, the Italian National Institute of Statistics has been engaged in a modernization program involving the use of statistical registers integrated into a single logical environment, the Italian Integrated System of Statistical Registers (ISSR), for supporting the consistency of statistical production processes and improving the quality of information for users. One object of the ISSR is the satellite statistical REgister for Public Administrations (REPA) that contains information on structural and economic variables on a subset of the Italian Public Administrations (PA). This subset includes specific sub-populations covered by the base business register related to the PA. Therefore, REPA extends, for each of those units, structural information coming from the base register with some economic variables obtained as the result of integration of data coming from administrative and survey sources. In this paper we describe some methodological aspects of the design and implementation of the production process, together with the structural metadata and the proposal of a structural variable for the functional classification of the statistical units.