Survey on Household Income and Wealth (Italy)

• Data description 
• Time period 
• Support links 
• How to access data 
• Catalogue record 

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Data description 

Indagine sui Bilanci delle Famiglie Italiane  is an Italian survey on household income and wealth from the Bank of Italy, also known as 'SHIW.' The data set contains detailed information on household composition, age, education, labour market variables, incomes (for individuals and households), savings and consumption. Information on credit, transfers and insurance is also available.

 

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Time period 

Data from 1989 to 2010 are available via this Banca d'Italia platform .

 

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Support links 

The Bank of Italy maintains a data description page .

Users can also consult the Adobe file information (in English or Italian) available in the dossier for each of four data waves on the K:\ drive  (see below).

 

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How to access data 

Data is available in three formats on this Banca d'Italia platform :

Stata
ASCII
SAS 

Manuals for all formats  are available at the Economics Departmental Library (VSP) and at the Badia Library.

Selected backfiles are available to current EUI members on the K:\ drive:

• To access the locally archived data, complete the online EUI Data Registration Form  (selecting 'SHIW-Italy' from the dropdown menu)
• Sign the EUI 'Conditions of Use' agreement and the 'Confidentiality Declaration' at the Badia Library (Economics Office, 085) or the Departmental information office.

Registered current EUI members can access the data directly from drive K:\.

A tutorial on Loading and Using Data on Windows is available online .

Stata 12 manuals are located at 005.369 in the VSP Reference Library and the Badia Library.

The Stata Journal  is at SER 51 on the garden floor of the Badia Library.

 

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More Statistics and Economics Resources 

Contact: Thomas Bourke at econlibrary@eui.eu