(English) The Italian population is ageing at a considerable pace and will continue so even more intensively in the next decades, when the more crowded generations of the baby boom of the sixties of the last century will be entering old age. The impact of this growing number of elderly is an...

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(English) Using data from the Italian Time-Use survey carried out by ISTAT in 2008-2009, the paper analyses the time spent on housework by men and women. The study focuses on a sub-sample of couples, married and in a non-marital unions, with employed women aged 20-49 years. The paper presents...

(English) In 1998 the Institute for Research on the Population and Social Policies (IRPPS) launched an Observatory on Reproductive Intentions. This involves the annual collection of data on the decisions of Italian women as to whether to have children or not and changes over time are monitored....

(English) The research presented in this report concerns the results of a survey on the quality of life of men and women with more than 65 years who do not work and live in 6 Italian cities. The cities have been chosen on the basis of the ranking of Italian provinces built by Legambiente in...