Population and Housing Census: The population and housing census collects information on persons usually resident in each municipality, thus providing an overview of the demographic and social structure of Italy and its territories.
The new permanent census is based on the integration between data from administrative sources and those acquired through surveys involving a representative sample of municipalities and households each year.
In order to guarantee greater timeliness and frequency of the information produced, in addition to the decennial national and European dissemination, a reduced set of tables at municipal level has been published on a subset of census variables on an annual basis, which can be modified overtime.
In some cases, the households participating in the sample surveys each year receive a letter signed by the President of ISTAT in which they are given the credentials to access the electronic questionnaire and fill it out in all its parts, in others they are contacted by an enumerator authorised by the municipality to carry out or schedule an interview.
The contents of the Permanent Population and Housing Census are established on the basis of the European Union Regulations, the census data users needs and to ensure the continuity of some time series. The dissemination topics concern the main demographic information, citizenship, internal and international migration, households, housing and other socioeconomic information.