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Data useful for planning may be collected and filed with a planning aim in one or more specific databases. Other times, they may arise from different sources and be collected for different aims and they might contain individual or aggregated data.
One of the principal sources of data useful for the aims of planning is represented by professional registers.
The data sources used to feed the forecasting model might be unique or multiple, but no one of the analyzed models has a sole source from which data that will provide the forecasting model are extracted .
Availability of updated data to be used as input in the forecasting model is necessary for the success of the exercise and the reliability of evaluations.
Data useful for planning may be collected and filed for aims different from the specific aim of planning. Vice versa, data might be collected with the principal aim to plan and afterwards be used also for other aims. At the end, databases existing and created with different aims might be enriched with data specifically required by the planning.
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