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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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)

7. 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

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