1. Contact | ||||||||||||
1.1 Contact organisation | ||||||||||||
National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) Short-term Economic Statistics Directorate | ||||||||||||
1.2 Contact organisation unit | ||||||||||||
Unit SCI/E | ||||||||||||
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1.4 Contact person function | ||||||||||||
1.5 Contact mail address | ||||||||||||
Via Torino, 6 I - 00184 Rome | ||||||||||||
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2. Metadata update | ||||||||||||
2.1 Metadata last certified | ||||||||||||
10/06/2014 | ||||||||||||
2.2 Metadata last posted | ||||||||||||
26/06/2014 | ||||||||||||
2.3 Metadata last update | ||||||||||||
26/06/2014 | ||||||||||||
3. Statistical presentation | ||||||||||||
3.1 Data description | ||||||||||||
“Indice dei prezzi all'importazione dei prodotti industriali” | ||||||||||||
3.2 Classification system | ||||||||||||
NACE Rev. 2. | ||||||||||||
3.3 Coverage - sector | ||||||||||||
Sections B to D of CpAteco 2007 are covered as regards products, sections B to E and G of Ateco as regards enterprises in terms of main activity. Classifications are Italian versions derived from NACE Rev. 2. Related services are excluded. Indexes are not required for the following aggregates of NACE Rev. 2: 07.21, 09, 18, 24.46, 25.4, 30.1, 30.3, 30.4, 33, 36, 37, 38.1, 38.2 and 38.3. | ||||||||||||
3.4 Statistical concepts and definitions | ||||||||||||
Data are collected for products imported by national importers. Reporting units are the industrial and trading enterprises. The price is an actual transaction price collected when the ownership of the goods is transferred. The price is the c.i.f. (cost, insurance and freight) price at national border, excluding all duties and taxes on imports to be shouldered by the reporting unit. Other sale conditions are defined by the most common contracts. | ||||||||||||
3.5 Statistical unit | ||||||||||||
Industrial and trading enterprise | ||||||||||||
3.6 Statistical population | ||||||||||||
The list of products is made up of about 1000 items (ProdCom). Prices, about 6.000 price series, are collected by a list of about 2.000 enterprises. | ||||||||||||
3.7 Reference area | ||||||||||||
The area covered is the whole national territory. | ||||||||||||
3.8 Coverage - Time | ||||||||||||
Monthly data are disseminated according to the Nace 2 classification at the 3-digit level since January 2010. | ||||||||||||
3.9 Base period | ||||||||||||
The index is Laspeyres fixed base type. The base is 2010. | ||||||||||||
4. Unit of measure | ||||||||||||
Indices | ||||||||||||
5. Reference Period | ||||||||||||
Monthly | ||||||||||||
6. Institutional Mandate | ||||||||||||
6.1 Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | ||||||||||||
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6.2 Institutional Mandate - data sharing | ||||||||||||
Not available | ||||||||||||
7. Confidentiality | ||||||||||||
7.1 Confidentiality - policy | ||||||||||||
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7.2 Confidentiality - data treatment | ||||||||||||
Recent data are confidential and sent to Eurostat for European aggregates only | ||||||||||||
8. Release policy | ||||||||||||
8.1 Release calendar | ||||||||||||
Every year in December Istat send to Eurostat a transmission calendar providing precise dates for the coming year | ||||||||||||
8.2 Release calendar access | ||||||||||||
Press release calendar http://www.istat.it/en/information/journalists/press-calendar | ||||||||||||
8.3 Release policy - user access | ||||||||||||
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9. Frequency of dissemination | ||||||||||||
Monthly | ||||||||||||
10. Accessibility and clarity | ||||||||||||
10.1 Dissemination format - News release | ||||||||||||
From December 2013 there is a monthly news release http://www.istat.it/en/archive/import+prices | ||||||||||||
10.2 Dissemination format - Publications | ||||||||||||
Not available | ||||||||||||
10.3 Dissemination format - online database | ||||||||||||
Not available | ||||||||||||
10.4 Dissemination format - microdata access | ||||||||||||
Not available | ||||||||||||
10.5 Dissemination format - other | ||||||||||||
Data are sent to Eurostat. This index is also one one of the 'Principal European Economic Indicators (PEEI)' | ||||||||||||
10.6 Documentation on methodology | ||||||||||||
Methodology is in the framework of short-term business statistics. Further details in annex | ||||||||||||
10.7 Quality management - documentation | ||||||||||||
More information about procedures applied for quality management and quality assessment in the document "Quality Guidelines For Statistical Processes" - December 2012 http://www.istat.it/en/files/2011/11/QualityGuidelines_EngVers_1.11.pdf | ||||||||||||
11. Quality management | ||||||||||||
11.1 Quality assurance | ||||||||||||
Essential points of Istat quality policy are: process quality, product quality, documentation, respect for respondents, strengthening of statistical literacy and users' orientation. More information available at http://www.istat.it/en/about-istat/quality | ||||||||||||
11.2 Quality management - assessment | ||||||||||||
Not available | ||||||||||||
12. Relevance | ||||||||||||
12.1 Relevance - User Needs | ||||||||||||
Eurostat is among the main users for this index. | ||||||||||||
12.2 Relevance - User Satisfaction | ||||||||||||
Not available | ||||||||||||
12.3 Completeness | ||||||||||||
Not available | ||||||||||||
13. Accuracy | ||||||||||||
13.1 Accuracy - overall | ||||||||||||
Not available | ||||||||||||
13.2 Sampling error | ||||||||||||
Not available | ||||||||||||
13.3 Non-sampling error | ||||||||||||
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14. Timeliness and punctuality | ||||||||||||
14.1 Timeliness | ||||||||||||
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14.2 Punctuality | ||||||||||||
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15. Coherence and comparability | ||||||||||||
15.1 Comparability - geographical | ||||||||||||
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15.2 Comparability - over time | ||||||||||||
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15.3 Coherence - cross domain | ||||||||||||
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15.4 Coherence - internal | ||||||||||||
Not available | ||||||||||||
16. Cost and Burden | ||||||||||||
14 persons work at ISTAT for unit SCI/E. | ||||||||||||
17. Data revision | ||||||||||||
17.1 Data revision - policy | ||||||||||||
Not available | ||||||||||||
17.2 Data revision - practice | ||||||||||||
Generally, major changes in methodology, sources and statistical techniques are announced in ad hoc publications. | ||||||||||||
18. Statistical processing | ||||||||||||
18.1 Source data | ||||||||||||
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18.2 Frequency of data collection | ||||||||||||
Monthly data collection. | ||||||||||||
18.3 Data collection | ||||||||||||
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18.4 Data validation | ||||||||||||
Not available | ||||||||||||
18.5 Data compilation | ||||||||||||
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18.6 Adjustment | ||||||||||||
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19. Comment | ||||||||||||
Not available |