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The
Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale
sulla Distribuzione del Reddito (CRIDIRE) “C. Dagum” is a Research
Centre for Income Distribution. It is an
Interdepartmental Centre, established at the Department of Quantitative
Methods of the University of Siena, Italy.
The
University
of
Siena
, founded in 1241 is one of the oldest Universities in Europe, and its
Institute
of
Statistics
, replaced in 1990 by the Department of Quantitative Methods, has been one
of the leading statistical research academic institutions in
Italy
since its born in the late 60’s. The CRIDIRE centre has an autonomous
statute within the University of Siena statute; it’s
administrative-scientific board is composed of five professors belonging to
the Departments of Quantitative Methods (2), Law and Economics (1), Media
and Communication (1), History (1) and is directed by Achille Lemmi, full
professor of Economic Statistics at the Faculty of Economics “R. M.
Goodwin” of the University of Siena.
The
research program of the CRIDIRE covers a broad range of topics including
income distribution, inequality, poverty and living conditions analysis,
social exclusion, labour market, social discrimination, social policy
evaluation and control, design and implementation of complex surveys, ad hoc
computer programs, packages and data bases.
The
CRIDIRE has developed an Integrated System for Poverty Analysis (SIAP –
Sistema Integrato per l’Analisi della Povertà); this consists of a
Statistical Package for the analysis of living condition, and it is
implemented in the SAS environment.
In
1996 the CRIDIRE and the Department of Quantitative Methods of the
University
of
Siena
, jointly with Eurostat, have supplied technical assistance to
Romania
as follows: analysis of the current system of social statistics, analysis of
the adequacy of the Romanian existing statistical resources for alternative
systems of social statistical indicators, training and updating of Romanian
official statisticians.
Since
1997 The Department of Quantitative Methods and the CRIDIRE have organised
training courses for public officials of the SISTAN (National Statistical
System), FORMSTAT (Statistical Training Agency), ISTAT (National Bureau of
Statistics) and TES (Training for European Statisticians).
The
CRIDIRE has conducted several Household surveys in
Tuscany
during the 90s; in particular since
1990 a
Household Panel Survey is conducted every three years in three
municipalities in the area of
Siena
. Moreover the Centre has been financed by the Regione Toscana for
conducting three main surveys: i) Student flows; ii) Transition from school
to work; iii) Poverty analysis in
Tuscany
.
The
team of experts at the
University
of
Sienna
have long experience in the analysis of income and related data, including
longitudinal analysis of income and labour from the ECHP. Several of them
have worked on the British Household Panel Study while research scholars at
the
University
of
Essex
. Members in the team have been involved in Eurostat discussion groups on
the subject, such as meetings of the High Level Think-Tank on income
distribution and poverty. They have been co-hosts of the Eurostat supported
Summer School on Social Statistics in Sienna. Apart from substantive and
statistical analysis, the teaching programme includes courses on survey
design and sampling. Moreover, the Director of the CRIDIRE centre, has been
deeply involved, at personal level, in several activities of international
and national statistical cooperation (team leader of a Medstat Eurostat
mission in Jordan and Israel, Istat representative in the Medstat programme,
cooperation and consultancy to Romania in the field of social indicators and
of social exclusion, cooperation with the China Central Statistical
Institute in the field of income distribution and poverty and inequality
estimation, consultancy for Istat and for the National
Government Commission for Poverty
and Social Exclusion in multidimensional poverty estimation).
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