Alessandro Molinari (1898 – 1962) was the first General Director of
ISTAT
The Italian National Institute of Statistics (; Istat) is the primary source of official statistics in Italy. The institute conducts a variety of activities, including the census of population, economic censuses, and numerous social, economic, a ...
, which was then known as the National Institute of Technology, in
Fascist Italy
Fascist Italy () is a term which is used in historiography to describe the Kingdom of Italy between 1922 and 1943, when Benito Mussolini and the National Fascist Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. Th ...
.
He reported directly to
Corrado Gini
Corrado Gini (23 May 1884 – 13 March 1965) was an Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient, a measure of the income inequality in a society. Gini was a proponent of organicism and applied it to nat ...
, who was President of the statistical institute. Although Gini was a Fascist, Molinari was a socialist who never was a card-carrying member of the Fascist Party.
Born in
Veneto
Veneto, officially the Region of Veneto, is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the Northeast Italy, north-east of the country. It is the fourth most populous region in Italy, with a population of 4,851,851 as of 2025. Venice is t ...
, he became the General Manager of SVIMEZ from 1948 to 1958.
References
External links
ISTAT website
CORRADO GINI AND ITALIAN STATISTICS UNDER FASCISM
La Lezione Sassarese di Paolo Sylos Labini (1956-1958)SVIMEZ
1898 births
1962 deaths
Scientists from Veneto
20th-century Italian people
Italian statisticians
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