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ASA 2022 Data-Driven Decision Making
(2023)
This volume collects the contributions presented at the conference “Data-driven Decision Making” organized by the Italian Association for Applied Statistics, held in Genoa from 12 to 14 September 2022. The papers cover a ...
Chapter Are Italian youngsters adequately equipped for an after-pandemic upswing?
(2023)
Are Italian youngsters adequately equipped for an after-pandemic upswing?All over the world young people seem to be particularly dazed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Indeed, they were touched just lightly by the disease, though ...
Chapter Misinformation and disinformation in statistical methodology for social sciences: causes, consequences and remedies
(2023)
The present is an introductory summary on the topic of misinformative and fraudolent statistical inferences, in the light of recent attempts to reform social sciences. The manuscript is focused is on the concept of ...
Chapter The relation between students’ educational performances and their access test results: a focus on an Italian case
(2023)
This paper aims at analyzing the relationship between university performances of freshman students, measured by the University credits (CUs) gathered during the first semester, and the results achieved in T.E.L.E.MA.CO. ...
Chapter Profiling students’ satisfaction towards university courses with a latent class approach
(2023)
Collecting and analysing students’ opinions towards the learning experiences lived during their enrolment in an academic program is widely recognised as a key strategy to evaluate tertiary education quality. Academic ...
Chapter Structure and dynamics of immigration in the municipalities of northwestern Italy
(2023)
The variability of the characteristics of immigration at different territorial levels is an important key to interpreting social phenomena. This paper deals with immigration in the municipalities of the Northwest of the ...
Chapter Official statistics for measuring the sustainability of tourism: the UNWTO initiative
(2023)
The ongoing digital transformation is facilitating the production, sharing, use and exploitation of an ever increasing amount of data. This phenomenon is stimulating the demand for data-driven decision-making. Regarding ...
Chapter Assessing the predictive capability of Invalsi tests on high school final mark
(2023)
Educational achievement can be considered a multifaceted issue, which comprises different domains of learning. In Italy, on one hand the INVALSI tests administered to students through the schooling years aim to measure the ...
Chapter How Italians coped with COVID-19 lockdown: evidence from a survey promoted through social networks
(2023)
During the first wave of the pandemic, a quantitative study was implemented through an online survey on the SEBCOV study in five countries: Italy, Slovenia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the United Kingdom. Its objective consisted ...
Chapter Access to emergency care services and inequalities in living standards: Some evidence from two Italian northern regions
(2023)
Rapid access to emergency medical care is crucial in reducing the implications of negative health events in terms of both mortality and disability. Thus, in a well-designed health system the geographical distribution of ...
Chapter New perspectives for the quality of sub-municipal data with the Italian permanent population and housing census
(2023)
Over the years, official statistics have shown increasing attention to the territory in providing detailed and quality information and, in this sense, the Population and Housing Census has always guaranteed the availability ...
Chapter The Land Cover/Use Code of the new Istat Census cartography
(2023)
ISTAT census layers, realized by ISTAT since 1991, are in update; this kind of digital cartography divides the entire national territory in very small enumeration areas to which are linked all the variables gathered during ...
Chapter On the use of auxiliary information in spatial sampling
(2023)
Technology development has led to a growing availability of low-cost data ready-to-use, frequently derived from large scale observations (i.e. data from pervasive systems like GPS sensors, or remote sensing data from earth ...
Chapter Job loss and financial struggle among the older age groups in 2021: Lessons from the European Union
(2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused detrimental economic effects worldwide. Adults around retirement age are especially vulnerable in this respect, being more likely to experience disturbances to their employment patterns: ...
Chapter Quality of life in Health Care: focus on patients
(2023)
In this work, we show a narrative review conserning instruments to measure the quality of Life in Health Care from a patients point of view. In particular, we pay attention on the construction of questionnaire and on the ...
Chapter Trusted Smart Statistics: new statistics for decision makers. The Istat’s experience
(2023)
The Trusted Smart statistics is an expression introduced by Eurostat to indicate the mature phase of the production of statistics based on Big Data and the transition from statistics based on traditional data sources to ...
Chapter Measures of interrater agreement when each target is evaluated by a different group of raters
(2023)
Most measures of interrater agreement are defined for ratings regarding a group of targets, each rated by the same group of raters (e.g., the agreement of raters who assess on a rating scale the language proficiency of a ...
Chapter Population ageing and sustainability in South Tyrol: measuring the economic implications of an ageing society
(2023)
Meeting the challenge of population ageing requires a better understanding of frailty and disability, and appropriate strategies to ensure the resilience of the health and social care system, without destabilising public ...
Chapter Potential risk of gambling products and online gambling among European adolescents
(2023)
he increased availability of gambling opportunities resulting from the progressive liberalisation of the gambling sector coupled with the widespread access to online gambling, is raising concerns regarding adolescents’ ...
Chapter Repression of the future-oriented disposition of Italians by a never-ending pandemic
(2023)
Likely, the after-pandemic world won’t be as it used. To properly imagine and build our future, we should forget the progressive growth of past times and even the concept of “normality” of pre-pandemic years is going to ...
Chapter A paradata-driven statistical approach to improve fieldwork monitoring: the case of the Non-Profit Institutions census
(2023)
A complex process requires relevant information on the crucial nodes of the process itself to make more effective decisions. This is the case for large complex surveys where among the several causes of wrong or inappropriate ...
Chapter Monitoring and evaluation of gender equality policies
(2023)
The 2030 Agenda has been adopted to achieve a better and sustainable future for all. The process of approaching its 17 Sustainable Development Goals is monitored through a global system of 240 statistical indicators approved ...
Chapter An experimental annotation task to investigate annotators’ subjectivity in a Misogyny dataset
(2023)
In recent years, hatred directed against women has spread exponentially, especially in online social media. Although this alarming phenomenon has given rise to many studies both from the viewpoint of computational linguistics ...
Chapter Educational mismatch and productivity: evidence from LEED data on Italian firms
(2023)
This study aims at evaluating the impact of educational mismatch onto firm-level productivity for a large set of Italian firms. In particular, over (under)-education refers to situations where individual’s educational ...
Chapter Gender INequality Indicator for Academia (GINIA)
(2023)
The main aim of this work consists on a methodological proposal to represent and measure gender inequality in academia, focusing on the University of Padua. In order to reach our goal, we ended up with two different and ...
Chapter Given N forecasting models, what to do?
(2023)
This work evaluates the forecasting performances of different models using data on Italian unemployment and employment rates over the years 2004-2022 at the monthly frequency. The logic of this work is inspired by the ...
Chapter An Open Data platform for decision making in local public administration
(2023)
This paper presents the Milan Open Data (OD) platform as a means to provide statistics and data in the framework of “Data-Driven Milan”, a city where policy decisions are taken in an “informed and aware” way using data. ...
Chapter The digitization of the private sector in the Italy. A non-aggregative method to monitor the NRRP agenda at macro-area level
(2023)
Covid-19 emergency has produced within societies a strong impulse toward digitization policies, designed to mitigate the negative effects produced on national economies and to ensure a recovery of it. Among the objectives ...
Chapter Factors affecting tertiary education decisions of immigrants in Italy
(2023)
To identify the determinants of the choices of young Italian natives and immigrants with respect to tertiary education, two datasets for 2009 were used: European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) ...
Chapter A Natural Language Processing approach to measure expertise in the Delphi-based scenarios
(2023)
The Delphi-based scenarios (DBS) development implies the assumption of different choices, through the gathering of information and the assessment of alternative resolutions (Panpatte and Takale, 2019). During the last ...
Chapter Internet use, feeling of unacceptance and Loneliness: immigrants of first and second generation in Italy
(2023)
Introduction Internet has become an essential part of our everyday life and several goals can be achieved through it. While part of the literature on the topic found a positive correlation between loneliness and the use ...
Chapter Students’ feedback on the digital ecosystem: a structural topic modeling approach
(2023)
Starting from March 2020, strict containment measures against COVID-19 forced the Italian Universities to activate remote learning and supply didactic methods online. This work is aimed at showing students’ perceptions ...
Chapter Assessing intimate partner violence in African countries through a model-based composite indicator
(2023)
Violence against women has been recognised to affect all dimensions of women’s lives and health, involving both the physical and mental conditions of victims and their general well-being. Intimate partner violence (IPV) – ...
Chapter Professional choices and personal values: Similarities and differences between Schein’s career anchors and Schwartz basic values
(2023)
Consistency between personal values and career choices is essential to achieve job satisfaction and to attain positive career outcomes and self-realization. Schwartz and Bilsky (1987) propose ten basic values, measured ...
Chapter Exploring Globalization with Cosmopolitics
(2023)
Cosmopolitics, an open-source dashboard designed by an Istat team to perform exploratory data analysis using Eurostat statistical open data on international trade, offers several tools for investigating globalization ...
Chapter A composite indicator to measure regional investment policies on R&D and innovation
(2023)
The aim of this work is to illustrate the application of a tool to monitor regional smart specialization strategies, a place-based european approach characterised by the identification of strategic areas for intervention ...
Chapter Individual and social aspects of after-Covid-19 pandemic depression
(2023)
How did individual and social aspects influence depression feelings during the pandemic? In this paper, we analyse the data collected through a survey conducted in the second half of 2021 among a convenience sample of ...
Chapter Interventions for non-self-sufficiency – Focus on care and social policies in South Tyrol
(2023)
Background: A growing body of scientific literature points to the consequences of various factors related to housing status on the well-being of individuals, particularly the elderly. This project aims to develop models ...
Chapter Tourism and territorial economy: beyond satellite accounting
(2023)
The tourism sector can be an important factor for the economic development. The increase in the present population, due to tourist flows, also activates a series of other sectors, generating significant economic benefits. ...
Chapter Cultural and sensorial correlates of Trebbiano wine consumption
(2023)
In this paper we highlight the sensorial and cultural correlates of the consumption of Trebbiano wine produced in the Abruzzo region, Italy. The data have been collected through a questionnaire survey on a sample of 48 ...
Chapter Spread of Covid-19 epidemic in Italy between March 2020 and February 2021: empirical evidence at provincial level
(2023)
Italy was one of the countries severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. An analysis of the factors that played a role in the spread of this epidemic is necessary. However, the assessment of which factors may be specific, ...
Chapter The territorialisation of the 2030 Agenda: a multilevel approach
(2023)
The United Nations 2030 Agenda increasingly represents a reference point for political planning, as demonstrated by the centrality of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the new cycle of EU policies. According to ...
Chapter Sustainable development goals: classifying European countries through self-organizing maps
(2023)
Environmental sustainability is one of the main goals of all countries in the world. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been proposed by the United Nations in 2015. The purpose of this paper is to explore if and how ...
Chapter The impact of economic insecurity on life satisfaction among German citizens
(2023)
The concept of life satisfaction dates back to the Age of Enlightenment and became popular in the Nineteenth century as a synonym for ‘good life’. Efforts are still underway to overcome the traditional economic criteria ...
Chapter Short-term forecasts on time series for tourism in Lombardy
(2023)
Data from official sources on nights spent in an accommodation for tourists in Lombardy are available until 2021. These data on touristic flows for 2020 and 2021 registered a clear downfall because of restrictions related ...
Chapter Remote working in Italy: Just a pandemic accident or a lesson for the future?
(2023)
During the Covid-19 pandemic, remote working (RW) has been a way to producing despite limiting contacts. In Italy, about a half of the workers experienced, at least for a part of their working time, RW during the years ...
Chapter Topic modeling for analysing the Russian propaganda in the conflict with Ukraine
(2023)
The conflict between Ukraine and Russia is changing Europe, which is facing a crisis destined to reshape the internal and external relations of the continent, shifting international balances. In this contribution, we show ...
Chapter The joint estimation of accuracy and speed: An application to the INVALSI data
(2023)
In Italy, the National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education and Training System (INVALSI) every year administers standardized tests via computer-based testing (CBT) to students attending grades 8, 10, and 13. The ...
Chapter Ammonia emissions and fine particulate matter: some evidence in Lombardy
(2023)
Lombardy is one of the most polluted regions at the European level, also due to its particular geographical structure and weather conditions which prevent the pollutants’ dispersion, and the high levels of emissions coming ...
Chapter On the utility of treating a vineyard against Plasmopara viticola: a Bayesian analysis
(2023)
Plasmopara viticola is the causal agent of the downy mildew, the most severe disease of grapevines. In order to prevent and/or mitigate the plant disease, fungicide treatments are often required, despite the presence of ...
Chapter Application of the guidelines of the Agency for Digital Italy guidelines and CSA Star self-assessment: A Docustar case study
(2023)
The paper shows the new particularly rigorous regulatory context introduced by the entry into force of the AGID guidelines with reference to the application of the Italian digital administration code on the formation, ...
Chapter Digital.VET : An innovative approach for teaching and training
(2023)
VET (Vocational Education and Training) Reforms and Labour Market reforms have started a process aimed at filling the gap between demand and supply of competences. The demand of competences, in fact, is affected by factors ...
Chapter Trust and security in Italy
(2023)
Starting from 2018, the European University Institute’s European Governance and Politics Programme developed an international survey in order to monitor the development of Solidarity in Europe. The text of the survey changed ...