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This contribution intends to present a comparison between well-being levels of Italian Provinces, thanks to the synthesis of the 2014 territorial well-being indicators “BES delle Province” (ISTAT-CUSPI). The Mazziotta-Pareto Index (MPI) was used, pursuant to the methodology ISTAT has been using since 2015 for the calculation of composite country-wide well-being indicators. Herein, we report the main steps for the constitution of the global indicator and the domain-based indicators. Additionally, we present alternative indicators to highlight their differences compared with the MPI and motivating the choice of the latter thanks to influence analysis. Finally, we report results with province-based rankings and maps that allow identification of distinctive characteristics of well-being in various territories for comparative purposes, both within single domains and globally. The snapshot of Italy that emerges from this may not always be consistent with the stereotype of the rich North vs. poor South.
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BES stands for Benessere Equo e Sostenibile, Equitable and Sustainable Well-being.
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We define as “outcome” the domains that have direct effects on well-being, while other domains that measure elements that are functional to improvement of well-being are called “instrumental”.
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The “BES delle Province” project is a collaboration between ISTAT and the Coordination of Statistics Offices of Italian Provinces (CUSPI). In the project, the term “Province” indicates both types of local institution for territorial areas introduced with Law 56/2014 (so-called “Delrio Law”): the Extended Province Areas (AVP) and Metropolitan Cities (CM). The latter as of 1 January 2015 have taken over the previous Provinces of the same name.
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For a full list of indicators and documentation of the “BES delle Province” project, please refer to website www.besdelleprovince.it
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For a full list of used indicators, please consult the Table 3 in the Appendix.
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The first two methods are based on aggregation, via arithmetic mean, of elementary indicators transformed with the min-max method and standardized deviations. Jevons Index and GMI aggregate, via geometric mean, elementary indicators transformed into index numbers and with the min-max method.
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The domains are Economic well-being, Education, Environment, Health, Social relationship and Work. The regional data used are the AMPI 2014 indicators, the same year of the data of the paper.
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Costa, R., Declich, C., Marchesich, E., Osti, S. (2019). Measurement of Well-being in Territories: An Application for Italian Provinces. In: Bianco, A., Conigliaro, P., Gnaldi, M. (eds) Italian Studies on Quality of Life. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 77. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06022-0_4
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