Italian Abstract: Nel presente lavoro, utilizzando i dati raccolti nell'indagine sui bilanci delle famiglie italiane, si esaminano comparativamente le condizioni di benessere percepite dalle famiglie del Centro-Nord e meridionali, cercando di individuare i fattori in grado di spiegarne il...

This paper firstly aims to evaluate the incidence of measurement error affecting the main variables collected in surveys on consumption. The assessment is carried out on two Tanzania surveys which provide both diary and panel data. Diary data can be employed to obtain reliability coefficients...

Italian Abstract: In questo lavoro si stima l'andamento dei prezzi delle case e quello dei terreni sottostanti dal 1927 al 2012. Al netto dell'inflazione, nel periodo in esame i prezzi delle case sono più che triplicati, mentre nelle grandi città sono quintuplicati. L'aumento risulta...

In this paper we use data from the Bank of Italy's Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) to study what Italian households think of tax evasion, and to estimate their propensity to evade taxes. This propensity turns out to be larger for the self-employed than for employees; within the...

The paper provides an overview of the main statistics produced by the Bank of Italy: financial accounts, monetary statistics, balance of payments, household and business surveys. The volume discusses the problems related to the measurement of economic phenomena, how statistics can be used for...

The paper shows the opinions on taxes of Italian citizens based on data gathered in four different national surveys between 1992 and 2013. Through a Principal Component Analysis, the study constructs a synthetic indicator of the propensity to evade, examining its intensity across various social...

The paper compares income inequality of households and individuals. Obviously, the latter is greater than the former; in fact households operate a broad redistribution of resources both between earners and non earners (children, unemployed, housewives), and between earners of unequal income....

Information from the Survey of Italian Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) is not normally used as a basis for regional estimates on account of the small sample size. This paper presents an experimental estimation of regional aggregates for the period 1995-2000, obtained by combining several...

This paper describes the composition and distribution of household wealth in Italy. First, the evolution of household portfolios over the last forty years is described on the basis of newly reconstructed aggregate balance sheets. Second, the characteristics and quality of the main statistical...