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Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Istat) is the Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 national statistical institute.

It was created in 1926 to collect and organize essential data about the nation. Administering the census
Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
 is one of its activities.

Since 1989 Istat has also held statutory responsibility for the coordination and standardization of official statistics collected or published under the aegis of the national statistical system SISTAN
Sistan

Modern Sistan is a border region in southeastern Iran and southwestern Afghanistan . In ancient times the area was known as Arachosia; it became known as 'Sakastan' in the 1st century BC, after it was conquered by the Saka tribes....
, whose membership includes the statistical offices of ministries, national agencies, regions
Regions of Italy

The Region#Political regions of Italy are the first-level administrative divisions of the state. There are twenty regions autonomous, five of them are constitutionally given a broader amount of autonomy granted by special statutes....
, provinces
Provinces of Italy

In Italy, a province is an administrative division of intermediate level between municipality and Regions of Italy .|||}A province is composed of many municipalities, and usually several provinces form a region....
, communes
Comune

In Italy, the comune, is the basic administrative division of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality....
, chambers of commerce, and similar bodies.

The most recent census was held on October 21, 2001.






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Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Istat) is the Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 national statistical institute.

It was created in 1926 to collect and organize essential data about the nation. Administering the census
Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
 is one of its activities.

Since 1989 Istat has also held statutory responsibility for the coordination and standardization of official statistics collected or published under the aegis of the national statistical system SISTAN
Sistan

Modern Sistan is a border region in southeastern Iran and southwestern Afghanistan . In ancient times the area was known as Arachosia; it became known as 'Sakastan' in the 1st century BC, after it was conquered by the Saka tribes....
, whose membership includes the statistical offices of ministries, national agencies, regions
Regions of Italy

The Region#Political regions of Italy are the first-level administrative divisions of the state. There are twenty regions autonomous, five of them are constitutionally given a broader amount of autonomy granted by special statutes....
, provinces
Provinces of Italy

In Italy, a province is an administrative division of intermediate level between municipality and Regions of Italy .|||}A province is composed of many municipalities, and usually several provinces form a region....
, communes
Comune

In Italy, the comune, is the basic administrative division of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality....
, chambers of commerce, and similar bodies.

The most recent census was held on October 21, 2001. It showed a total resident population of 56,995,744 people living on a land area of 301,328.45 kmē (116,343.565 sq mi).

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