Organizing administrative data for statistical purposes. A case study

Dipartimento di Statistica "G. Parenti", Firenze - Working Paper 2006/11. In Italy the public administration is actually undergoing a very deep improvement and innovation process: in this new context local bodies are required by law to build statistical information systems oriented to monitoring, auditing, management control and government decision support. The paper presents the working project that the Department of Statistics “G. Parenti” of the University of Florence is carrying out together with the Municipality of Florence, aiming at the organization of an efficient informative system inside the administrative structure. The project is the first experience of this kind in Italy and it opens interesting areas of development for the use of statistics in policy and management settings.