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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ...