(Adnkronos) - “Abbiamo scelto come tema ‘l'Europa e le statistiche senza frontiere’ in quanto è fondamentale: le statistiche non devono avere frontiere neanche in Europa, dove c'è un sistema statistico europeo al cui coordinamento è affidato un istituto chiamato Eurostat che coordina tutti i sistemi statistici nazionali dei Paesi Ue e questo ci permette di avere statistiche comparabili”. Sono le parole di Francesco Maria Chelli, presidente Istat, a margine della decima edizione di StatisticAll, il Festival della Statistica e della Demografia. Una quattro giorni intensa e ricca di appuntamenti sul tema “Statistiche senza frontiere. Fiducia, etica, sistema: il futuro dei dati in Europa”, in svolgimento a Treviso.
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00:00This year the theme is Europe and statistics without borders.
00:09Why did you choose this theme?
00:12Because it is a fundamental theme.
00:14If we want to make the point of the situation, statistics must not have borders.
00:19Nor in Europe, where, as everyone knows, there is a European statistical system
00:24to which the coordination is entrusted to an institute called Eurostat
00:30that coordinates all the national statistical systems of the EU countries.
00:38This allows us to have comparable statistics.
00:43If you want to know how much the employment rate of France has decreased
00:49and you want to compare it with that of Italy,
00:51you must be sure that all the definitions that led to the calculation of that number
00:56are the same that led to the calculation of the same number in a different country.
01:00If this were not the case, you would have data that seem similar but are not similar.
01:05They cannot be compared.
01:08We can compare inflation.
01:10We can say that inflation in Italy has decreased more
01:15and therefore the phenomenon is more subdued in Italy than in Germany.
01:21Yes, we can say that because we calculate exactly with the same methods
01:25this phenomenon of inflation, which is a price index.
01:29It is called the harmonized price index and it is calculated for all of Europe.
01:33Borders only serve to create different statistics
01:38that only serve to increase confusion in those who read them.
01:42Instead, having a European average and being able to compare it with all the European countries is fundamental.
01:47However, for many statistics we can also compare it with a wider system,
01:51which is that of the United Nations, where the statistical system of the United Nations is also a wider system.
01:57Unfortunately, this comparability is not everywhere,
02:01but it is clear that it is an important process
02:03and the borders must also be reduced from this point of view.
02:07We have seen, Mr. President, that you will participate in a panel dedicated to the memory of Matteotti.
02:13What is the correlation between Matteotti and the statistics?
02:18First, this year Matteotti is the centenary of his death
02:23and therefore it seemed to us that it was correct to remember him in a festival.
02:28Second, Matteotti is from Polesina, from Rovigo,
02:33and this also seemed to us to be a reason to remember him here in Treviso.
02:38Matteotti's approach is to start from the data.
02:44Few people know that he has deeply dealt with economic and financial issues
02:50and has dealt a lot with inequalities.
02:53To do all this, these studies on economic inequalities,
02:59on the laws of fiscal imposition, etc.
03:03He always did all this, even when he studied illiteracy,
03:07which is a phenomenon in statistics, a social statistic,
03:10he always did it with a setting.
03:12What is the setting?
03:13First we look at the data and then we talk.
03:15This is a bit ...
03:17the deepening comes from the data, from the numbers.
03:22For this reason, the Matteotti method is a statistical method
03:25that is very close to what we do.