A Review of the Literature on Well-Being in Italy: A Human Development Perspective

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Table 1 Quality of Life/Well-Being Indicators Elaborated in Italy

Indicator	Authors and year	Phenomenon	Dimensions	Composite index?	Territorial unit
Indicators elaborated in the academia
HDI	Conte et al. (2007)	Human development	Education, life expectancy, and income	Composite indicator	Country; macro areas
HDI	Costantini and Monni (2008)	Human development	Education, life expectancy, and income	Composite indicator	Regions
HDIM	Costantini and Monni (2008)	Human development	Education, income, and employment	Composite indicator	Regions
Regional HPI-2	Costantini and Monni (2008)	Human poverty	Life expectancy, decent standard of living, and social exclusion	Composite indicator	Regions
HDIM-M and HDIM-W	Costantini and Monni (2008)	Gender-specific human development	Income, education, and health	Composite indicator	Regions
Adjusted HDI	Monni (2002)	Human development	Education, job market, and income	Composite indicator	Provinces
Quality of life	Colombo et al. (2012)	Quality of life	Climate, environment, services, sociodemographic features, and economic features	Composite indicator	Provinces
Life satisfaction	D'Andrea (1998)	Life satisfaction	Income, health, family, friendships, leisure, and work	Composite indicator	Country
Indicators elaborated by the media and NGOs
Quality of life	Il Sole 24 Ore (yearly elaboration)	Quality of life (livability)	Standard of living, business and labor market, services, environment and health, population and public order, and leisure	Composite indicator	Provinces
Quality of life	Italia Oggi (yearly elaboration)	Quality of life (livability)	Standard of living, business and labor market, crime, social unrest, financial services, health, population, and leisure	Composite indicators	Provinces
Regional Quality of Development Index—QUARS	Sbilanciamoci! (yearly elaboration)	Quality of life	Environment, economy and employment, health, education and culture, rights and citizenship, equal opportunities, and participation	Composite indicator	Regions
Indicators elaborated by public institutes
Equitable and Sustainable Well-Being (BES)	ISTAT and CNEL (2013)	Well-being	Environment, health, wealth, education and training, reconciliation of work and life, social relations, security, subjective well-being, landscape and cultural heritage, research and innovations, quality of services, and policy and institutions	Suite of indicators	Regions

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