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Istat
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Istat headquarters in Rome
Institute overview
Formed	1926 (1926)
Jurisdiction	Italian Government
Headquarters	Rome, Italy
Institute executive	Enrico Giovannini [1], President
Website
istat.it/en/

Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Istat) is the Italian national statistical institute. His main activities are the census of Italian population, the census of Industry and Service (Censimento dell'industria e dei servizi) and Agriculture (Censimento generale dell'agricoltura) and statistical analysis of population and economics of the country. Istat is the most important entity providing national statistics in Italy.

History[link]

Istat was created in 1926 to collect and organize essential data about the nation. Administering the census is one of its activities. Since August 4, 2009, Enrico Giovannini, former Chief statistician of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), has been the President of the institute.

Since 1989 Istat has also held statutory responsibility for the coordination and standardization of official statistics collected or published under the aegis of the national statistical system SISTAN, whose membership includes the statistical offices of ministries, national agencies, regions, provinces, communes, chambers of commerce, and similar bodies.

Presidents[link]

Istituto Centrale di Statistica:

• Alberto Canaletti Gaudenti (1945 - 1949)
• Lanfranco Maroi (1949 - 1961)
• Giuseppe De Meo (1961 - 1980)
• Guido Maria Rey (1980 - 1989)

Istituto Nazionale di Statistica:

• Guido Maria Rey (1989 - 1993)
• Alberto Zuliani (1993 - 2001)
• Luigi Biggeri (2001 - 2009)
• Enrico Giovannini (2009 - )^[2]

Access points[link]

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Information offices[link]

Istat has 18 regional offices which host public access points named Centri di informazione statistica, Statistical information centers. The center in Rome also offers data from Eurostat.

The library[link]

The library, established in 1926, is open to the public and contains Istat publications; national and international works on statistical and socioeconomics subjects; journals from other national statistical institutes and international organizations (FAO, IMF, OECD, UN etc.). The library collection includes 400,000 volumes and receives about 2800 periodical journals. There are also 1500 volumes printed prior to 1900.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Website
• SISTAN

Coordinates: 41°53′57″N 12°29′45″E / 41.8992106°N 12.4958753°E / 41.8992106; 12.4958753