Question 1 of 3
Where do the site’s numbers come from?
| Official source | Pages |
|---|---|
| MEF · Ragioneria Generale dello Stato (BDAP) The State budget: final forecasts, payments and collections | The accounts · Planned vs spent · Public debt |
| Eurostat Debt, growth, jobs, taxes, pensions, inequality and spending of EU countries; wages, consumption and residents | Public debt · Pensions · Regions · Europe · Jobs · Growth · Tax burden · The journey of a euro · Inequality |
| Banca d’Italia Household wealth | Wealth |
| MEF · Dipartimento delle Finanze Declared income and IRPEF | My taxes · Income |
| Conti Pubblici Territoriali · Presidenza del Consiglio Public revenue and spending attributed to the regions | Regions |
| Commissione europea · Bollettino petrolifero settimanale The price of petrol, with and without taxes | The journey of a euro |
| ISTAT Consumer prices, for “In today’s euros” | The accounts · Wealth |
| Presidenza del Consiglio · the governments Start and end of governments | Growth · Tax burden |
| Normattiva and EUR-Lex · the laws The rules on VAT and excise duties | The journey of a euro |
The last two rows are references: government dates and laws. They are not included in the count of data sources.
Page by page: data used, what it measures and files
- The accountsDoes revenue cover spending?
Expected revenue and authorised spending in the State budget (final forecasts), year by year
Authorised spending by mission
Expected revenue by tax
Price index for “In today’s euros”: the revaluation is a portal calculation
- Planned vs spentHow much of the authorised amount was paid?
State spending chapter by chapter: authorised, committed and paid
State revenue article by article: forecast, assessed, collected and paid in, also by type of tax
- Public debtHow much debt do we have, and who holds it?
Debt of all general government at year end, in euros and as % of GDP
Who holds the debt: Banca d’Italia, banks, other intermediaries, households and firms, abroad
What form the debt takes: securities, loans, currency and deposits
Debt by the maturity set when it was issued
Interest accrued in a year by all general government (accrual accounting)
Interest spending of the State budget alone (final forecast), next to the Eurostat figure
State budget spending authorised for the missions “Istruzione scolastica” (022) and “Istruzione universitaria e formazione post-universitaria” (023), compared with interest for the same year
The debt of the 27 EU countries, as % of GDP and in euros
Residents on 1 January, for the debt per resident calculated by the portal
- PensionsHow much do pensions weigh?
Pension spending as % of GDP, Italy and EU-27
Pension spending in euros: old age, survivors, disability
Receipts of all social protection, not of pensions alone
People with at least one pension on 31 December: Italy, France, Germany, Spain
Employed people aged 15 to 64, annual average, in the same four countries
- RegionsWhich territories contribute more than they receive?
Revenue of all general government attributed to each region
Spending of all general government attributed to each region
Interest on the debt, taken out of spending in the balance calculated by the portal
Residents of each region on 1 January, for the per-resident values calculated by the portal
- EuropeIs Italian public spending higher than in other EU countries?
General government spending as % of GDP, in total and by function, in the 27 countries and the EU-27
- JobsHow many people are employed in Italy?
Employment rate aged 15 to 64, by quarter, Italy and EU-27, women and men
Activity rate aged 15 to 64 (people working, or looking for work and available), to distinguish unemployed and inactive people
- GrowthAre we growing as much as other countries?
GDP in volume, index 2015 = 100, by quarter, in the 27 countries and the EU-27
Start and end of each government, for the government periods
- Tax burdenHow much do taxes and contributions weigh on GDP?
Taxes and social contributions as % of GDP, in the 27 countries and the EU-27
Taxes on corporate income as % of GDP: Italy, Germany, France, Spain, EU-27
Start and end of each government, for the government periods
- My taxesHow much IRPEF is reported relative to declared income?
Declared IRPEF by income class: taxpayers, income and net tax
- The journey of a euroHow much of €100 in labour cost ends up in the basket?
From labour cost to take-home pay for the single worker on the average wage: contributions and income tax
Annual VAT and excise revenue in the national accounts, for the share of taxes in the basket estimated by the portal
Household consumption spending, the other half of the same estimate
Price of petrol in Italy with and without taxes, week by week
Standard, reduced and super-reduced VAT rates
Petrol pays the standard VAT rate
VAT is charged on a price that includes excise duty
- IncomeHow is reported income distributed?
Taxpayers by class of declared total income
Taxpayers and total income by age group
- WealthHow much does an Italian household own?
Household net wealth, its distribution and thresholds by quarter; experimental statistics
Price index for an inflation-adjusted wealth comparison: portal calculation
- InequalityHow far apart are high and low incomes?
S80/S20 ratio of disposable income, in the 27 countries and the EU-27
Share of income of each fifth of the population, Italy
Mean disposable income, Italy, for the quintile means estimated by the portal
People at risk of poverty (below 60% of median income), Italy and EU-27
At-risk-of-poverty threshold in euros a year, by household type
Map written by the portal from the snapshots’ metadata: dataset codes, official addresses, years and reading dates come from the files; the line saying what each dataset measures is the portal’s. The code leads to the dataset’s official page, the file name to the portal’s snapshot.