Abstract

Big data, smart statistics, digital administrative data and Citizens are inseparable: from smartphones, meters, fridges and cars to internet platforms, the data of most digital technologies is Citizen Data, that is the data of the citizens and on the citizens. Their importance and their involvement ask for rethinking the relations between the citizens and the production of Official Statistics. In the session we are focusing on examples of the reuse of data generated by Citizens on themselves, during processes like using services, making telephone calls or when they populate administrative archives during their lives as students, workers, uretired persons to produce Official Statistics. The examples are from the Permanent Population and Households Census, from the integration process of utility data files (e.g. electricity, gas) in the design of the Household Energy Consumption Survey and from the data collection on violence against women and on discrimination (LGBTQ+ population, Roma and homeless) conducted in cooperation with Civil Society Organizations, opening the issue of the reuse of privately-held-data in official statistics.