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Microdata dissemination in Bank of Italy: now and tomorrow Angela Gattulli Banca d’Italia 22 November 2019 c o m e . c o n n e c t . c r e a t e

Users and data Micro data Internal General Other Only for Economists External public Institutions research purposes Narrative Macro data There is a need for increasingly detailed – or «granular» – statistics, which are useful to analyze phenomena such as the distribution of income and wealth and for monetary policy purposes. Which are the choices/decisions to disseminate microdata? • • Which is the Bank of Italy’s experience and way forward? T UNIS , 22 N OVEMBER 2019 2

Granular data: confidentiality vs utility Risk of re- identification Utility T UNIS , 22 N OVEMBER 2019 3

Granular data: which tool? But not all data can be easily anonimysed Data confounding Laboratory Remote processing T UNIS , 22 N OVEMBER 2019 4

Which microdata Banca d’Italia has long tradition in disseminating granular survey data Households and individuals ✓ Survey of Household Income and Wealth (collected since 1962) ✓ Eurosystem Survey data (HFCS – Italy, collected since 2010) ✓ Financial literacy of Italian adults (collected since 2017) ✓ International tourism survey (collected since 1966) Firms ✓ Survey of Industrial and Service Firms (collected since 1974) ✓ Business Outlook Survey of Industrial and Service Firms (collected since 1993) ✓ Survey of expectations of inflation and growth (collected since 1999) ✓ Italian housing market survey short-term outlook (collected since 2009) ✓ Survey on cross-border transactions in services by non-financial and insurance firms (collected since 2013) T UNIS , 22 N OVEMBER 2019 5

HOW Households Firms PUF Remote Restricted access (BIRD) (without identification • PUF variables: birth date and (without identification Elementary • Remote place, residency, day and variables: name of firm, tax data Restricted hour of interview) code, region, ATECO code) access Format file: ASCII, SAS, Firewalls at user, data and STATA process level T UNIS , 22 N OVEMBER 2019 6

The way forward Research Data Center T UNIS , 22 N OVEMBER 2019 7

Banca d’Italia RDC ISSUES Legal framework compliance TOOLS • Expanding the supply of GOALS • PUF (GDPR and Professional secrecy) microdata for external researchers Harmonizing metadata and documentation • BIRD • Facilitate the way internal and external users access microdata IT instruments for data anonimysation, access • Web Tabulator management, dataset versioning • Exchanging experience (New) in managing microdata (eg INEXDA and ISTAT) Human resources • Improve methodology • Lab (New) Logistic • Fully operational in 2021 T UNIS , 22 N OVEMBER 2019 8

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