Summary information

Study title

Multiscopo ISTAT – Aspects of daily life (2015)

Creator

Istat

Study number / PID

SN167 (UniData)

Data access

Information not available

Series

AVQ - Aspects of Daily Life

The Multiscopo Aspects of Daily Life is the most important Multiscopo survey conducted by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT). It collects information on four different thematic areas: the social, domestic and urban environment (family, home, educational and professional profiles, transport and property); health condition (food consumption, domestic accidents, sports); cultural habits (leisure time, social and political participation, holidays, cultural consumption); satisfaction ratings on some public services (transport, post offices, local health authorities, health services and...

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Abstract

The survey Aspects of Daily Life, which is part of an integrated system of social surveys – Multiscopo ISTAT – reveals the basic information relating to the daily lives of individuals and families. Since 1993, the survey is conducted annually and the information gathered provides insight into the habits of citizens and the problems they face every day. The main topics of the survey are: - eating habits - smoking habits (electronic cigarettes too) - health conditions - mass-media use - PC and Internet use, IT skills - cell phone use - cultural consumption (films, concerts, performances, exhibition, reading books, etc.) - religious, political, and social participation - use of public services and public utility services and degree of satisfaction - use of health services and degree of satisfaction - environmental issues - safety - trust in people and institutions - education - daily commuting - leisure time - domestic accidents - physical activity and sports - family life and friendship - working conditions - use of the justice system - characteristics of the house and the area - possession of home appliances and means of transport - possession of IT equipment - access to Internet - household economic situation

Methodology

Data collection period

Not available

Country

Italy

Time dimension

longitudinal (trend repeated cross-section)

Analysis unit

individual
family

Universe

whole Italian population

Sampling procedure

19.158 families, 45.204 individuals. Two-stage stratified random sample

Kind of data

individual data

Data collection mode

face to face interview
self-administered questionnaire

Access

Publisher

UniData - Bicocca Data Archive

Publication year

2017

Terms of data access

ISTAT data are released in according to Creative Commons – Attribution 3.0 Licence, available here. The redistribution to the third party, even in partial form, of data available to UniData members only is not allowed.