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Data on Femicide in Italy from 2022 to 2018
No full textThe dataset contains useful information for analyzing the phenomenon of female homicide and femicide. The years taken into consideration were 2018-2022, It consists of 610 cases containing information on the victim and the murderer, when known. From this data, it was possible to establish in each case the location and date of the crime and the age and nationality of born of the murdered woman. With regard to the murderer, if known, data was collected on sex, age, nationality of born, type of relationship with the victim, motive, and subsequent suicide, if applicable
Calibrating Items With Time Use Diaries: A Refined Method
Full text linkThe aim of the article is to refine a calibration method already presented and used to improve the
information provided by the scales of frequency in questionnaires by combining it with data from
time use diaries. In other words, this study proposes improvements to an existing calibration
method aiming at “adjusting” the data gathered through items — which is useful for the analysis of
phenomena with relatively long time cycles, but also notoriously subject to bias — with the data
gathered through daily diaries — which are less subject to distortion, but generally only suitable for
analysing phenomena with short or very short time cycles. In some cases, in fact, the calibration
model already proposed may be problematic since, as we shall see, it could introduce another
possible cause of bias. Such distortion could become relevant in certain situations and can be
remedied by the proposed refinement with the new calibration model under consideration here.
Finally, to highlight the advantages of the proposed method, we will develop with practical
applications, comparisons by applying the presented models on data on religious practice collected
in a large survey conducted in Italy in 2008. It should be specified, however, that the applicability
of the proposed model is not limited to this example and can be extended to other contexts and
types of data
CaSty - Calibrating Stylized Items, version 2.0
Full text linkThe CaSty.2.0.exe program aims to allow you to combine the information collected from the diaries with that from the stylized items in a very simple way, with the limit that both must be completed by each individual detected within a single survey. The data needed to obtain useful statistics are relatively few and the indispensable commands are very simple. Finally, the program provides tables and graphs containing the information typically needed to present a research report or paper.
The current version, CaSty.2.0.exe, works only with the Windows operating system
Is There Really ‘Another’ Counterexample to the Secularization Thesis? Religious Dynamics in Italy between 1910 and 2013
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Background Among the modern Western countries where the issue of religiosity has been studied, the United States and Italy offer the only examples of empirically verified periods when religious practice was consolidated or even revived to some extent. A recent study, however, shows that the nature of religious exceptionalism in the United States does not constitute a real counterexample. This leaves Italy as the only country that might provide evidence of the falseness of the assumption that the secularization process is inescapable.
Purpose This study seeks to enhance our knowledge about the case of Italy, where the many surveys conducted over the years have produced a wide variety of often divergent results, prompting a fervent debate among scholars. Several authors argue that the level of participation remained almost constant from 1980 to 1990. Others, on the contrary, claim that the level of participation increased between 1980 and 2000. This paper contributes to this path of study, aiming to shed light on the devel- opment of religiosity in Italy between 1910 and 2013.
Methods Different data sets—time use surveys, ‘stylized surveys’, direct surveys and other kind of data—and an innovative method will be used to develop the rea- soning and trace the trend of secularization.
Results As will be shown, there are discontinuities in the pattern of religious prac- tice over time. These fractures were due to attrition caused in turn by factors related to economic phenomena like migration and political/ideological subcultures, which temporarily changed the level of religious practice and, at least for a time, counter- balanced the long-term trend away from religious practice.
Conclusions and Implications The trends presented suggest that secularization in Italy developed without any discontinuity, leading to confirmation that moderni- zation and religious action ‘counteracted’ each other in an extremely regular man- ner. Therefore, according to the current state of knowledge, no documented mod- ern Western country constitutes a counterexample to the secularization thesis. It can thus be claimed that modernization and secularization are inextricably linked processes
Education and employment in Italy of the cohort of adults born in 1954-58: an analysis from 1993 to 2009
Full text linkThe article concerns the return of education in Italy, assessed through labour market participation and occupation of people born in the cohort 1954-1958. The changes in time are analysed in the years 1993-2009, that is since the transition from school to work has been definitely ended (35-40 age group) until before retirement (50-55 age group). We will show that the relationship between education and employment is rather complex, varies over time and space, and features significant gender-based differences. In terms of employability and occupation, the advantage of a high level of education is relatively greater for those who occupy a more disadvantaged position in the labour market (women and those who live in the least dynamic areas of Italy)
Problems in Measuring Diachronic Religious Behavior, or Using Indicators to ‘Make a Virtue of Necessity’: the Case of the Netherlands (1975–2005)
Full text linkThe aim of this study is to show the different advantages and drawbacks of the main quantitative indicators used in research on diachronic religious behavior. We will demonstrate that religious affiliation has to be used in long-term studies; although it is extremely imprecise, it is often available over long periods of time. Instead, the best solution for medium-term studies is to use frequency of attendance at religious services. This indicator is more accurate than religious affiliation, but is only widely available from the 1960s–1970s onwards. Finally, the most suitable indicator for short-term analysis is obtained from diary-based time-use studies. It is the most precise of the three indicators, but the source is less readily available as these surveys have only been conducted in most countries in the last 30 years. This study is based on data from Time Use Surveys conducted in the Netherlands every 5 years from 1975 to 2005
The Dynamics of Religious Practice in Spain from the Mid-19th Century to 2010
No full textLike other Western countries, Spain is rapidly becoming more secularized. While there is almost unanimous
agreement that this is happening, significant discord exists about the phases of the process and the speed of
its development. This is mostly due to the use of partial and sometimes unreliable data. The aim of this study
is to remedy these uncertainties. Our work is based on the data provided by time-use surveys conducted in
2003 and 2010. Using some basic provisional but reasonable assumptions, we demonstrate that it is possible to
identify a plausible dynamic of secularization in Spain starting in the second half of the 19th century. We also
highlight the fact that the different indicators feature some significant time lags. Indeed, the dating of the start of
the secularization process varies depending on whether reference is made to data on birth cohorts, the overall
population, or the “visibility” of the phenomenon
Children in residential care: How to evaluate behavioural change
No full textThis article reports the results of an observational longitudinal study carried out on four children who lived in a residential community because of their multiproblem families. The aim of this study was to apply the evaluative methodology proposed by Le Poultier (1990) in order to assess I) the processes of change in the children over time and II) the relations between educational practices and observed changes. The findings confirm I) the existence of processes of change in the children; II) the presence of correlations between the displayed behaviour of the children and adult practices. In addition, what emerges is the existence of a dimension (transgression versus co-operation and autonomy) underlying the educational project designed by the adults. The data refer to observations of the behaviour of each staff member on a weekly basis for a six-month period and, at the same time, to the self-observations of each adult regarding the behaviour adopted towards each child. The data were analysed using: I) correlational coefficients to check the relation between the children's behaviour and the social work; II) Correspondence Analysis to permit a simultaneous representation of the developmental changes observed in the four children with respect to social work
Calibrating Questionnaires with Weekly Diaries : An Application in Religious Behavior, Netherlands 1975 to 2005
Full text linkThis article presents an innovative approach to improve the power of questionnaires by combining them with weekly diaries. The aim is to show how one can calibrate information collected from questionnaires, which provide a distribution that is in general biased, with diary data, which are more accurate but cannot provide a distribution across a range of frequencies. These problems become even more pronounced when the object of analysis is a specific issue, such as religious practice, the focus of this study. The suggested user-friendly model uses the more accurate diary data to adjust the distribution produced by the standard questions and enables researchers to obviate the problems of the two data collection methods. To present a practical application, the Time Budget Survey, conducted at five-year intervals between 1975 and 2005 in the Netherlands, is used
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