L'indagine sulle forze di lavoro del comune di Firenze: metodi di stima per piccole aree a confronto

Abstract: In many countries there is a growing demand for current and reliable data on small areas. This is certainly true for Italy where the information need concerns most sample surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute (lSTAT). The Labour Force Survey (LF), for example, has been designed to warrant accuracy at regional level far quarterly wave estimates and at province level for yearly estimates. To cope with this problem, the Municipality of Florence has designed a LF survey, parallel to that of ISTAT, which can produce several reliable estimates at municipal level. However the small area problems are not completely overcome as this survey cannot produce reliable estimates for districts or other sub-area of the municipality. In this note we present three possible methods for calculating the total number of unemployed people in the five districts of the town for both each quarterly wave and the entire year.