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The chapter describes how several Italian actors (official statistics, nonprofit practitioners, academic researchers) cooperated together to implement the new global standards for measuring the nonprofit sector and volunteering in a complex and diverse country. The first part illustrates the history and the state of the art of nonprofit official statistics. The second part outlines the methodological developments in measuring organization-based and direct volunteer work and offers conceptual and practical guidance for the implementers of the ILO Manual on the Measurement of Volunteer Work. The third part is dedicated to the third sector and social economy satellite account.
Authors gratefully acknowledge the help of Chiara Orsini – Istat, in revising the final version of Sects. 5.2 and 5.4. The chapter is co-authored by K. Fonović (Sects. 5.1 and 5.5), S. Stoppiello (Sect. 5.2), T. Cappadozzi (Sect. 5.3) and S. Cuicchio (Sect. 5.4).
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The ICNPO was elaborated by the JHU CCSS in the 1990s on the basis of the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC). The ICNPO was subsequently adopted as an optional classification by the UNSD and recommended by the Handbook (UN, 2003).
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Classification of economic activities Ateco 2007 was developed by Istat and used in statistical surveys replacing Ateco 2002. Ateco is the national version of the European classification Nace Rev.2, and it was developed with the contributions of experts and representatives of public and private institutions, with the purpose to describe the peculiarities of Italian production structure, particularly regarding categories and subcategories of economic activity (Istat, 2009).
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Planned for 2021, as established by the current National Statistical Plans (DPR, 2019).
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At the time of the planning of the survey, accessible in a working version.
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In the Italian legal system, “voluntary organizations” are a specific type of nonprofit non-governmental organizations defined by Law 266/1991: based almost exclusively on volunteer work, their services are oriented to public good and free of charge for beneficiaries, and internal governance offices cannot be remunerated.
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MESV project on “Measuring the economic and social value of volunteering” was an inter-institutional partnership between Istat, CSVnet – the Italian National Coordination of Volunteer Support Centers and “Volontariato e Partecipazione” Foundation (2012–2014); for details see Fonović et al. (2016).
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This boundary has since been revised by the adoption of Resolution 1 by the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians. The boundary is now placed at “the household or of related family members”. The boundary was changed to avoid the common experience of persons helping members of their immediate family who do not live with them, which most would view as part of the normal obligations of family care.
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Categories classified in the questionnaire are non-cohabiting family members; friends, acquaintances or neighbors; people previously unknown; community, environment or animals; other.
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The “immediate family” or “next of kin”, which can be taken to mean parents, grandparents, siblings, children and grandchildren of household members (UN, 2018: 57).
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The production costs are equal to the sum of intermediate consumption, compensation of employees, consumption of fixed capital and other taxes on production. Sales shall mean the sales excluding taxes on products but including all payments made by general government or the European institutions linked to the volume or value of output, but excluding payments to cover an overall deficit or settle debts (Eurostat, 2013: Sect. 3.33). In the case of private non-profit institutions serving businesses, the subscriptions from the group of businesses concerned are treated not as transfers but as payments for services rendered, i.e. as sales (Eurostat, 2013: Sect. 3.35).
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Production includes volunteer activities that result in goods. Examples of those activities are the construction of a dwelling, church or other building. Volunteer activities that do not result in goods are excluded (Eurostat, 2013: Sect. 3.08).
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Periodical benchmark revisions of the NAs are planned at EU level. Every 5 years, European countries shall reassess sources and methods used in national accounts estimates.
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Frame-SBS is a statistical register of annual financial statements of active enterprises included in the ASIA-Enterprises business register (about 4.4 million units). The compilation of the register is based on the massive use of administrative and fiscal data as the primary source of information, complemented by statistical survey data.
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Cappadozzi, T., Stoppiello, S., Cuicchio, S., Fonović, K. (2021). Lessons Learned in Applying the International Official Statistical Standards to Volunteering: The Italian Experience. In: Guidi, R., Fonović, K., Cappadozzi, T. (eds) Accounting for the Varieties of Volunteering. Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70546-6_5
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