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MEASURING IMMIGRATION AND FOREIGN POPULATION IN
ITALY
Salvatore Favazza Maria Pia Sorvillo Istat -
National Institute of Statistics - Italy
New York, 4-7 December 2006
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Population registries in Italy

• The 8,100 Italian municipalities manage 3
  population registries
• Vital events
• Births, deaths, marriages, divorces
• Resident population
• Individuals having their usual residence in
  the territory of the municipality
• Households
• Italians living abroad

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Resident population register

• Legal base (register law and regulation)
• Aiming to enumerate and to identify all
  residents.
• Compulsory for usually resident persons
• Only legally present foreigners (with valid
  residence permit)
• Information collected
• Main information about individuals (personal
  code, name, sex, place and date of birth, name of
  the parents, citizenship,)
• And households (composition, address,)
• Changes in individual and household
  characteristics
• Changes in address and place of residence

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From administrative data to statistics

• National statistical office regularly collect
  data from municipal registers about
• Main characteristics of resident population (age,
  sex, citizenship,..)
• Demographic flows (births, deaths, migration,.)
• It means to collect data from 8,100 respondents
  which
• differ in dimension (from 50 to 2,500,000
  residents)
• differ in level of automation (from paper-only
  to full EDP)
• differ in consciousness of the relevance of
  statistics (affecting data quality)

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Population registers to measure foreign
population stock

• Istat has not direct access to registers
• Aggregated information is asked to each
  municipality about
• Amount of foreign population and demographic
  balance births, deaths, immigration and
  emigration (internal/abroad), acquisition of
  citizenship
• Distribution by sex and single citizenship,
  including minors.
• Distribution by age and sex of total foreign
  residents

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Population registers to measure foreign
population flows

• Statistical information are requested by mean of
  an annual survey asking each municipality
• Individual information about people registered as
  a new resident
• Coming from another Italian municipality
• Coming from abroad
• and about people cancelled from the register and
  moving
• To another Italian municipality
• To another country

More than 1,500,000 records every year
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Population registers to measure foreign
population flows

• This survey allows the analysis of migration
  flows with respect to
• Individual features of migrants (age, sex,
  citizenship, marital status,.)
• Geographical characteristics (long/short range
  migration)
• With an origin/destination approach (both for
  internal and international migration)

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Population registers to measure foreign population

• Compulsory registration is not always
  accomplished by foreigners
• Residence is a legal concept (effects of
  regularization laws)
• Cancellation process is complex
• Administrative procedure takes a long time (loss
  in timeliness)

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Population registers to measure foreign population

• Actions to ameliorate this data source
• Tighter link between offices issuing residence
  permits (police authorities) and population
  registers (both for registration and
  deregistration)
• Completion of projects aiming to realize full EDP
  in public administration
• Extensive use of automatic data collection
• Will result in
• Improvement of timeliness, accuracy and
  efficiency of data dissemination
• Additional information available for analysis of
  immigration and foreign population

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Population registers to measure immigration

• More data needs to produce statistical
  information relevant to policy makers
• to record naturalization and acquisition of
  citizenship of immigrants
• to collect information on persons with foreign
  background (i.e. with immigrant parents)

Measuring International Migration Concepts and
Methods, New York, 4-7 December 2006