A0316
Title: Italian subjective well-being: A territorial and longitudinal analysis through a poset methodology
Authors: Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo - Sapienza University (Italy)
Enrico Ivaldi - Iulm University (Italy) [presenting]
Abstract: The study and measurement of subjective well-being has a long tradition in the literature. The various research studies have focused both on defining the concept of subjective well-being and on constructing a measure of it. In recent decades, research interest has grown in the synthesis of indicators relating to subjective well-being with the aim of constructing a synthetic measure of subjective well-being. By using data about citizens collected through the Multi-purpose Surveys on families conducted by Istat (Institute Italian National Statistics Institute), the purpose is to define a synthetic index, which allows the comparison of different individuals and different Italian Regions about their level of subjective well-being. The study analyses the longitudinal data produced by Istat between 2014 and 2021 with the aim of understanding if and how subjective well-being has changed in recent years. In summarizing the information, the Partially Ordered Sets methodology is applied, which allows respect for the multidimensionality of the phenomenon and the ordinal nature of the indicators used.
