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Reducing the response burden and widening available statistical information necessitate new approaches in the National Statistical Institutes production process. Our article focuses on longitudinal data needs. Two approaches for building business longitudinal data in a context of cross‐section surveys and administrative sources information are considered. The article describes construction approaches and evaluates the quality of two data bases obtained through multisources integration. The computed databases aim to represent the target population of Italian firms with 20 persons employed and over. The similarity of the distribution of the main economic variables between the target population and the computed databases is considered a basic criterion in evaluating the quality of the created databases. To this end, rank correlation, and the Fligner–Policello test are applied. In addition, representativeness R indicators are computed. No differences are found between distributions.

AbstractWe carried out an analysis of political and electoral changes of left‐wing parties which occurred in the last general election in Tuscany. The social environment in Tuscany historically supported leftist values. This social tissue, deep‐rooted in territory, represented the milieu in which grew up: on the one hand a leftist political culture and, on the other, an economic culture based on co‐operative firms. These two factors reinforced each other representing the basis of left electoral prevalence. The strong decrease of left is caused by different factors such as the erosion of old social values and the unresolved effects of economic crisis.

AbstractThe 2014 European Parliament election and the 2016 Constitutional Referendum in Italy occurred in the middle of two general elections. These votes, taking place respectively at the beginning and the end of the government led by Matteo Renzi of the Democratic Party (PD), represented a public test of the PD leadership. The election results were diverse in many respects, but they replicate social, economic, political, and cultural differences. In particular, between the two electoral exercises the differential electoral behaviour of South compared with the rest of the country is deepened. Moreover, the results can be interpreted as the outcome of differences in age, educational levels, social, and economic unrest; all these variables are synthesized by the territorial distribution of the vote and this helps in interpreting the evolution of political sentiment in Italy. A spatial statistics methodology is utilized to analyse votes by means of their territorial distributions. The outcomes indicate that referendum result was influenced by the economic vote. Apart from the substance of the constitutional reform, the referendum result can be traced back to economic factors: the absence of perceived economic improvements and the persistence of high unemployment.