State account
Forecast → amendments → final accounts
Linking the Budget Law, amendment notes and the final accounts (the Rendiconto) to measure the gap between what was planned and what was actually delivered.
Curated catalogue
What’s inside?
… publications by the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF)
… data families
… themes
Every card carries a theme, description, period and format; the link to the official MEF source opens together with the card. The content and coverage labels are added by the portal, and we say so clearly.
… families
Families and publications: what changes
Families: the publications the MEF repeats every month or for every region, grouped by the portal. Publications: every single file, exactly as the MEF publishes it.
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Inside the files
Ten systems,
field by field.
For the ten main data systems, we explain what’s really in the files: which columns they contain, what they measure, and what their limits are.
Possible connections
One publication states a fact.
Several publications tell a story.
Some questions can only be answered by cross-referencing several publications. These are the first leads the data allows us to follow: working ideas, not conclusions.
Anomalies
Spending over time, at the same level of detail
Comparing mission, programme and economic classification across consistent years to find sudden jumps, values that never change, and changes in classification.
Territories
Public bodies, cash, debt and public works
Using registries and territorial codes as a bridge between local budgets, cash flows, debt and the progress of public works.
Public workforce
People, turnover and composition
Reading staffing levels, hires and departures together, by contract, sex and type of employment.
New topic
Capacity to deliver investment
Comparing appropriations, payments and the status of works, to distinguish announced spending from what’s actually delivered.
Boundaries of the analysis
Which questions the data can answer?
We always start from the official BDAP data: if an answer isn’t in the data, we don’t promise it. When an external source is needed (ISTAT, the national statistics institute, or Eurostat) we always say so. This table shows which questions we can answer, and how.
QuestionCoverageHow
What’s the state of the State account?Direct
Revenue, spending, balances, forecasts and final accounts.
What’s changed over the years?Direct
Historical series and comparisons using consistent classifications.
Are there any spending anomalies?Derived
Statistical signals that need checking: a jump can come from a change in classification rules or in what an item includes, not from genuinely unusual spending.
How are Italian households doing?Partial
Income, employment, unemployment and poverty risk from Eurostat, using data Italy transmits via ISTAT, updated to 2025. The definition of poverty risk changed in 2021, and we flag this on the card. There’s no detailed household budget data.
Which spending could be cut?Not prescriptive
The data shows rigidity and scenarios, but doesn’t decide what’s necessary.
Employment, salaries and wealth?Partial
Good coverage of employment, unemployment and the public workforce; not individual salaries or private wealth.
Method and provenance
One primary source.
Every exception declared.
The catalogue is a faithful, verifiable copy of what the MEF (Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance) publishes on BDAP. Titles, descriptions, dates and links come from the MEF; the “content” and “coverage” labels are added by the portal, and they always stay identifiable. Some cards use ISTAT and Eurostat data that isn’t in BDAP: we always cite it separately, never silently.
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