The European Union energy strategies imply significant changes in the power systems. These should contribute to sustainable development and protection of the environment by enabling the EU to achieve its targets set in the third package of legislative proposals for electricity and gas markets....

Open Land Use Map is an initiative that has been started by the Plan4business project and that will be extended as part of the SDI4Apps project in the future. This service aims to create an improved worldwide land use map. The initial map will be prepared using the CORINE Land Cover, Global...

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in using appropriate instruments to measure household living conditions. Actually defining material living condition needs to consider the level of consumption as well as the economic resources in terms of income and wealth that enable...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the possibility of applying statistical matching on two different data sources to create an integrated database with detailed information on households income and consumption expenditures in Italy. The data to integrate are those of EU-SILC (EU Statistics...

The need for new indicators on universities is growing as governments and decision makers at all levels are faced with the huge opportunities generated by new knowledge, but at the same time are pressed hard by budget constraints. University rankings are attracting policy and media attention,...

The paper deals with the problem of estimating structural business statistics by exploiting already existing administrative information integrated with survey data. In particular, the aim of the study is to verify the possibility of estimating key structural variables which are not directly...