Banca d'Italia Microdata Extractor – Indagine sui Bilanci delle Famiglie Italiane (BFI)

This project provides tools for navigating and processing the Banca d'Italia microdata from the survey "Bilanci delle famiglie italiane" (BFI). It includes a Python class BIMicrodataExtractor with structured methods to explore, query, and analyze the BFI dataset efficiently.

📦 Project Structure

The central component is the BIMicrodataExtractor class, which offers:

• 🚀 Simplified access to the dataset structure
• 🧠 Attribute encoding utilities
• 🔎 Filtering and pairing logic for household members
• 📊 Joint and conditional distribution tools
• 📁 Integration-ready design for larger analytical pipelines

📚 Dataset Overview

Bilanci delle famiglie italiane (BFI) is an biennial survey by Banca d'Italia capturing detailed financial aspects of Italian households. It includes information on:

• Demographics
• Employment, unemployment and pension conditions
• Families earnings, passive income and transfer income
• Housing conditions (rent, property, loan)
• Family debts
• Family wealth and assets
• Payment options
• Saving solutions
• Families expenses
• Insurance solutions

After loading the data in the BIMicrodataExtractor class, the information relative to the families in general will be stored in the attribute df_families, while the information about the single members of the families will be stored in the attribute df_familymembers.

🧩 Key Features of BIMicrodataExtractor

Installing & Setup

git clone git@github.com:Clearbox-AI/bancaitalia-microdata-extractor.git

pip install -r path/to/bancaitalia-microdata-extractor/requirements.txt

pip install -e path/to/bancaitalia-microdata-extractor

To setup your AVQ ISTAT Microdata, unzip the data folder you find here and provide the path to the unzipped folder to the load_data() method of your BIMicrodataExtractor class to get started!

Unlike raw data, this data was processed to allow some methods of the class BIMicrodataExtractor to work smoothly.

Updating version

To update your local version go to your local folder and run:

git pull origin main

pip install -e bancaitalia-microdata-extractor

📊 Examples

from microdata_extractor import BIMicrodataExtractor

# Supposing your AVQ Microdata ISTAT is stored in "BFI_2022"
# After loading the data, the class bfi will features two attributes being:
# - bfi.df_families (with information about the families) 
# - bfi.df_familymembers (with information about the single members of the families)
mde = BIMicrodataExtractor()
mde.load_data("BFI_2022")


# Consult the available attribute categories 
mde.attribute_categories

# Filter attributes by relevant categories
_ = mde.get_attributes_by_categories("demographics","unemployment" condition="or")

# Check encodings for categorical variables
_ = mde.get_attribute_metadata("STUDIO", print_output=True)
_ = mde.get_attribute_metadata("OCCNOW", print_output=True)

# Compute the joint probability distributions of STUDIO (education level) and OCCNOW (employed/not employed)
# Compute it only for adults at the time of th esurvay (2022) -> born before 2003 (ANASC<=2003)
rules = [("ANASC","<=",2003)]
df_prob = mde.joint_distribution(attrs=["STUDIO","OCCNOW"], df=mde.df_familymembers, conditions=rules)

Contacts

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