- Docente: Rosa Bernardini Papalia
- Credits: 10
- SSD: SECS-S/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in STATISTICAL SCIENCES (cod. 8054)
Course contents
I. Introduction to observation and measurement of economic phenomena.
II. The system of National Economic Accounts; Input-Output Tables.
III. Measures and statistical analyses of economic aggregates. Data sources: sampling surveys, Census and Panel data. Sources of error and data quality. Statistical analysis of economic data.
IV. Measures and analysis of time and space variation of economic aggregates. Price Indices. Economic and statistic approaches to index number theory. The use of consumer price indices in the deflation of aggregates. Indicator of inflation processes. Spatial comparisons of consumer price indices, purchasing power parities and international comparisons of inflation.
V. Measures and analysis of income inequalities and poverty.
Data sources. Inequality measures: the Gini index, the Theil index, the Atkinson index. Poverty measures: the indices of diffusion and intensity of poverty. The Sen index. Human development indices.
VI. Measures and analysis of Labour market.
Data sources of Labour Supply. Composition of Labour Force. Indicators of Labour Market.
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