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Received: 23 October 2017

Accepted: 20 February 2018

First Online: 22 March 2018

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: Claudio Quintano [ORCID ID 0000-0001-8315-8476] is Emeritus Professor of Economic Statistics. He teaches “Statistical Methods for Business Decisions” and is the author of more than 400 works including essays, articles, notes, internal papers and speeches at conferences in various fields of statistics. He focused his attention on the statistical data quality and economic research.Paolo Mazzocchi [ORCID ID 0000-0002-6632-314X] is currently an Assistant Professor of Economic Statistics. His teaching experiences relate to the following subjects: “Statistics for Public Administration”, “Statistical Methods for Assessing Business Performance” and “Statistics”. His main research relates to statistical data quality in National Accounts (mainly the Non-Observed Economy) and to the analysis of the business performances.Antonella Rocca [ORCID ID 0000-0001-8171-3149] is an Assistant Professor of Economic Statistics. She teaches “Statistics for Business” and “Statistics for Enterprises”. Her many research interests are gender gap in the labour market, quality of economic data, pre-electoral political polls and social exclusion, including NEETs, immigrants and other vulnerable segments of population.

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