Publications
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Chapter On the use of auxiliary information in spatial sampling
(2023)
Technology development has led to a growing availability of low-cost data ready-to-use, frequently derived from large scale observations (i.e. data from pervasive systems like GPS sensors, or remote sensing data from earth ...
Chapter Job loss and financial struggle among the older age groups in 2021: Lessons from the European Union
(2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused detrimental economic effects worldwide. Adults around retirement age are especially vulnerable in this respect, being more likely to experience disturbances to their employment patterns: ...
Chapter Quality of life in Health Care: focus on patients
(2023)
In this work, we show a narrative review conserning instruments to measure the quality of Life in Health Care from a patients point of view. In particular, we pay attention on the construction of questionnaire and on the ...
Chapter Trusted Smart Statistics: new statistics for decision makers. The Istat’s experience
(2023)
The Trusted Smart statistics is an expression introduced by Eurostat to indicate the mature phase of the production of statistics based on Big Data and the transition from statistics based on traditional data sources to ...
Chapter Professional choices and personal values: Similarities and differences between Schein’s career anchors and Schwartz basic values
(2023)
Consistency between personal values and career choices is essential to achieve job satisfaction and to attain positive career outcomes and self-realization. Schwartz and Bilsky (1987) propose ten basic values, measured ...
Chapter Measures of interrater agreement when each target is evaluated by a different group of raters
(2023)
Most measures of interrater agreement are defined for ratings regarding a group of targets, each rated by the same group of raters (e.g., the agreement of raters who assess on a rating scale the language proficiency of a ...
Chapter Population ageing and sustainability in South Tyrol: measuring the economic implications of an ageing society
(2023)
Meeting the challenge of population ageing requires a better understanding of frailty and disability, and appropriate strategies to ensure the resilience of the health and social care system, without destabilising public ...
Chapter Exploring Globalization with Cosmopolitics
(2023)
Cosmopolitics, an open-source dashboard designed by an Istat team to perform exploratory data analysis using Eurostat statistical open data on international trade, offers several tools for investigating globalization ...
Chapter A composite indicator to measure regional investment policies on R&D and innovation
(2023)
The aim of this work is to illustrate the application of a tool to monitor regional smart specialization strategies, a place-based european approach characterised by the identification of strategic areas for intervention ...
Chapter A paradata-driven statistical approach to improve fieldwork monitoring: the case of the Non-Profit Institutions census
(2023)
A complex process requires relevant information on the crucial nodes of the process itself to make more effective decisions. This is the case for large complex surveys where among the several causes of wrong or inappropriate ...
Chapter Gender INequality Indicator for Academia (GINIA)
(2023)
The main aim of this work consists on a methodological proposal to represent and measure gender inequality in academia, focusing on the University of Padua. In order to reach our goal, we ended up with two different and ...
Chapter Given N forecasting models, what to do?
(2023)
This work evaluates the forecasting performances of different models using data on Italian unemployment and employment rates over the years 2004-2022 at the monthly frequency. The logic of this work is inspired by the ...
ASA 2022 Data-Driven Decision Making
(2023)
This volume collects the contributions presented at the conference “Data-driven Decision Making” organized by the Italian Association for Applied Statistics, held in Genoa from 12 to 14 September 2022. The papers cover a ...