Antonio Rinaldo Discenza is a professional statistician of the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), an expert in labour market statistics and analysis, a survey methodologist, and survey manager.
He has over 20 years of experience in the design, build, management, and monitoring of the statistical and technical processes of large household sample surveys for the production of official statistics, such as the labour force survey.
He has been working within the international sphere for more than 15 years on an extensive range of activities, such as designing and delivering formal training courses and training on the job on statistical processes and methodology for large household surveys; technical assistance and statistical capacity building to national statistical offices; and sector reviewing in the field of labour force survey and Labour Market Statistics.
Between September 2017 to August 2021 Antonio worked within the Department of Statistics of the International Labour Organization, working on the development of guidance and provision of training and support to countries on the application of the latest international standards and good practices for the measurement of labour and other forms of work in household surveys.