The Italian Experience in Promoting Data Literacy Among the Next Generation of Statisticians

This paper has the aim to present Istat activities to promote statistical literacy with a special focus on the young generations. It is divided into three parts. The first deals with the assessment of the current situation and examines the institutional reasons why Istat promotes data and statistical literacy, then it continues to explore what is being done in practice presenting the list of some activities. After that it goes further in-depth examining the turning point of the COVID-19 period and the switch to the fully digital activity. The second part of the paper concerns target audiences, who they are and partnership activities developed to reach them. The third section basically concentrates on strategies for future activities also based on the possibilities given by the Mission devoted to education in Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan that plans projects intended to develop the habit of scientific culture in Italian schools.