(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) This working paper presents the research report on the Policy Delphi survey titled “Roma Sport 2020”. There was a need to conduct a study on the role and potential of sport in order to enhance its educational dimension and to address the urgent problem of the sedentary lifestyle of...

(English) Le attività di implementazione e gestione della rete rientrano nelle competenze del servizio “Elaborazioni informatiche e banche dati” dell’IRPPS e sono concentrate nella sede di Roma potendo la sede di Salerno gestire la struttura informativa in modo autonomo. L’obiettivo...

(English) Nell’ultimo mezzo secolo, gli studi di popolazione hanno conosciuto un’evoluzione profonda per ampiezza del campo d’interesse e per livello d’approfondimento delle matrici socioeconomiche e culturali dei comportamenti demograficamente rilevanti. Alla crescente esigenza di...

(English) More than 500 students from upper secondary schools in Rome and Provincia of Rome have been questioned about science: from information channels to the science policy decision making, from scientific path at school (including textbooks and laboratories) to scientific profession and...

(English) Cancer prevalence is the proportion of people in a population diagnosed with cancer in the past and still alive. One way to estimate prevalence is via population-based registries, where data on diagnosis and life status of all incident cases occurring in the covered population are...

(English) To reduce costs and enhance the research quality in clinical trials (CT) a more systematic approach is needed for CT automatization as well as for enhancing interoperability at various levels of the research process. To this aim a conceptual model of CTs should be developed. At the...

(English) Within the European Union important steps towards convergence have been nowadays taking place as regards two different dimensions of migratory policies: immigration policies (entry and stay, asylum and border controls) and immigrant policies (integration process). In this context the...

(English) An important aspect of science education is represented by textbooks. Textbooks provide a context for understanding the relationship between knowledge and values, and to observe how the research results are presented to the society. In this working paper we analyze how the phenomenon...

(English) In this work the Delphi participative methodology is analyzed, considering and critically discussing the most relevant literature. The main results are reorganized in a strengths and weaknesses scheme. The analysis of Delphi methodology is preceded by a general introduction on the...