The new quality strategy in the modernised Italian National Statistical Institute Giovanna Brancato (brancato@istat.it) Giorgia Simeoni, Antonia Boggia, Andrea Bruni, Gabriele Ascari Italian National Statistical Institute (Istat) 28 June 2018 Session 08

Rationale International drivers ES Code of Practice update Reinforcement of coordination within National Statistical Systems ESS Common Quality Framework Internal drivers - Modernisation Register-based production and new products and sources New organisation  Formalisation of service level agreements; centralisation of corporate support functions Need for a wider system for quality measurement and assessment Quality of the National Statistical System

Quality before modernisation Design Build Collect Process Analyse Disseminate Quality Assurance Plan Evaluate Monitor Prevent Assessment Audit & Self Assessment Coverage Nonresponse Measurement Metadata and Quality Indicators documentation

Quality in the modernisation: new products & organisation Administrative sources & survey data Integrated system of registers and surveys Integrated System surveys registers Quality checks Quality indicators and measurements Data Collection Directorate Methodology and Quality Directorate Interoperability among systems

Quality in the modernisation: measurement & assessment Standard Quality Reporting Design Collect Process Disse minate Quality at Corporate Level Data Quality (Input Output) Process Quality Quality of the Service Metadata Management

Quality in the NSS (Session 6: Coordination of NSS, ESS and beyond) Audit to the statistical processes of the Other National Authorities (ONAs) Drafting and sharing of tailored quality guidelines Development of audit questionnaire ant test on some processes Launch of the auditing program (2018) Training on quality for the staff of the bodies in charge of producing statistics in Italy (ONAs and other institutions)

Conclusions Priorities and activities realised Reinforcing the quality of the national statistical production and the European statistics produced by the ONAs Providing the users with more information on quality (and more accessible) Centralisation of the computation of some quality indicators, computation of new quality indicators Quality framework for register-based and multisource statistics

The new quality strategy in the modernised Italian National Statistical Institute Thank you Giovanna Brancato, Italian National Statistical Institute (Istat) (brancato@istat.it)