Speakers

Mr Federico   Polidoro
Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT)

Biography:

Federico Polidoro has been working at the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) since 1986. After dealing with the analysis of economic indicators and the monthly survey on industrial production, since 2003 he has been following the consumer price statistics. From October 2012 to April 2016 he was the Head of Consumer Price Unit and from April 2016 up to now he is the Head of the Unit Integrated System on economic conditions and consumer prices. Statistics on consumer prices, purchasing power parity, house price indices, agricultural prices and price indices, income and living conditions (EUSILC), household budget survey and the survey on trips and holidays are the main statistical topics that are at the center of the Unit activity. Moreover, he is engaged, on matters of his own competence, in activities within the framework of international institutions (as EUROSTAT, UNECE, etc.).

"Italian and European Experience in Using Household Surveys to Measure Poverty and the Joint Distribution of Income, Consumption and Wealth"

EUSILC (European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) is the cornerstone of comparable measures of relative poverty and living conditions of households at the European level. A survey is carried out yearly by EU countries asking households to provide NSOs a wide range of information that is treated to calculate several indicators. Some of these indicators are crucial to monitor progress towards the goals set by the Europe 2020 strategy, the EU's growth strategy for the current decade adopted by the European Council in June 2010 with the headline target for social inclusion of reducing poverty by lifting at least 20 million people out of the risk of poverty or social exclusion (measured by AROPE, that is the key indicator produced by EUSILC).
The presentation will describe AROPE (At Risk Of Poverty or social Exclusion) and other indicators compiled based on EUSILC microdata, together with the survey design and the process that makes also use of administrative data. Together with the measures of relative poverty arising from EUSILC results, a measure of absolute poverty is then introduced, explaining the main features of the methodology adopted based on a consumption expenditure measure from the Household Budget Survey (HBS). The presentation will then illustrate the use of these indicators (relative poverty on income side, absolute poverty on consumption expenditure side) in international strategies and national policies. The presentation will conclude with a description of ongoing studies at European and Italian level to provide users with microdata with joint distribution of information on Income, Consumption and Wealth (ICW) in the framework of the European Commission incentive to bring social indicators on a par with macroeconomic indicators within the macroeconomic governance.