The Italian survey

The universe of Italian establishments has been derived from data collected by Istituto Nazionale di Statistics (ISTAT, the National Statistical Office) through the Censirnento Intermedio dell’lndustria e dci Servizi (Intermediary Census on Industry and Services) that has been recently published. The definition of the sample has been implemented with reference to the structure of industry and service sectors as they were at December 3lst 1996.