Chapters in this book
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Chapter How Italians coped with COVID-19 lockdown: evidence from a survey promoted through social networks
(2023)
During the first wave of the pandemic, a quantitative study was implemented through an online survey on the SEBCOV study in five countries: Italy, Slovenia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the United Kingdom. Its objective consisted ...
Chapter Interventions for non-self-sufficiency – Focus on care and social policies in South Tyrol
(2023)
Background: A growing body of scientific literature points to the consequences of various factors related to housing status on the well-being of individuals, particularly the elderly. This project aims to develop models ...
Chapter An Open Data platform for decision making in local public administration
(2023)
This paper presents the Milan Open Data (OD) platform as a means to provide statistics and data in the framework of “Data-Driven Milan”, a city where policy decisions are taken in an “informed and aware” way using data. ...
Chapter Quality of life in Health Care: focus on patients
(2023)
In this work, we show a narrative review conserning instruments to measure the quality of Life in Health Care from a patients point of view. In particular, we pay attention on the construction of questionnaire and on the ...
Chapter A Natural Language Processing approach to measure expertise in the Delphi-based scenarios
(2023)
The Delphi-based scenarios (DBS) development implies the assumption of different choices, through the gathering of information and the assessment of alternative resolutions (Panpatte and Takale, 2019). During the last ...
Chapter Internet use, feeling of unacceptance and Loneliness: immigrants of first and second generation in Italy
(2023)
Introduction Internet has become an essential part of our everyday life and several goals can be achieved through it. While part of the literature on the topic found a positive correlation between loneliness and the use ...
Chapter Given N forecasting models, what to do?
(2023)
This work evaluates the forecasting performances of different models using data on Italian unemployment and employment rates over the years 2004-2022 at the monthly frequency. The logic of this work is inspired by the ...
Chapter Population ageing and sustainability in South Tyrol: measuring the economic implications of an ageing society
(2023)
Meeting the challenge of population ageing requires a better understanding of frailty and disability, and appropriate strategies to ensure the resilience of the health and social care system, without destabilising public ...
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 impact of economic insecurity on life satisfaction among German citizens
(2023)
The concept of life satisfaction dates back to the Age of Enlightenment and became popular in the Nineteenth century as a synonym for ‘good life’. Efforts are still underway to overcome the traditional economic criteria ...