Measuring socio-economic deprivation at sub-municipal level through the integration of census and administrative data
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The integration of permanent population and housing census data with administrative sources offers an exceptional opportunity to produce detailed indicators of demographic, social, and economic phenomena down to the sub-municipal level. This approach, which combines accurate, timely, renewable, and geocoded data, enables in-depth analysis of key phenomena and allows for tracking their evolution across time and space. The Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat) has recently launched a project to measure socio-economic deprivation at the sub-municipal level. Leveraging existing databases, a series of individual indicators were developed to assess deprivation across four dimensions: economic status, employment, education, and housing. These indicators are synthesized into the Socio-Economic Deprivation Index of population (SED-Index), calculated at the enumeration area level. The availability of data at this level provides significant potential for analysis and supports policymakers in identifying areas with higher socio-economic deprivation within municipalities.
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4407427637