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A Measure of Trust: The Italian Regional Divide in a Latent Class Approach
Elli VassiliadisErasmo VassalloGioacchino FazioFrancesca Giambonasubject
TypologySociology and Political ScienceTrustSettore SECS-P/06 - Economia ApplicataLatent class analysiArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Latent class analysis0502 economics and businessHuman geography050602 political science & public administrationDevelopmental and Educational PsychologyEconomicsEconomic geography050207 economicsClass (computer programming)Measure (data warehouse)Italian region05 social sciencesGeneral Social SciencesConvergence (economics)Latent class model0506 political scienceEconomySettore SECS-S/03 - Statistica EconomicaPartition (politics)Social capitaldescription
Social differences within countries may partly explain the lack of economic convergence and the persistence of regional disparities. The case of Italy is emblematic: economic gap between North and South remains at high levels with large differences in social capital and in trust. In this paper, we use the micro data from the ISTAT “Aspects of Daily Life” Survey to build a measure of “trust in others” and a measure of “trust in institutions” through a latent class model to attribute a trust score to the Italian households and the Italian regions and, in this way, to add elements of knowledge useful to policies. Our measures confirm a persistent territorial divide although the regional mapping appears more complex than the classical North–South partition. At last, a discussion on the household typology shows that the territorial gaps of trust persist even among households with similar socio-economic characteristics.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-10-05 | Social Indicators Research |