(English) The Italian population is ageing at a considerable pace and will continue so even more intensively in the next decades, when the more crowded generations of the baby boom of the sixties of the last century will be entering old age. The impact of this growing number of elderly is an...

(English) In 1998 the Institute for Research on the Population and Social Policies (IRPPS) launched an Observatory on Reproductive Intentions. This involves the annual collection of data on the decisions of Italian women as to whether to have children or not and changes over time are monitored....

(English) The research presented in this report concerns the results of a survey on the quality of life of men and women with more than 65 years who do not work and live in 6 Italian cities. The cities have been chosen on the basis of the ranking of Italian provinces built by Legambiente in...

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(English) More than a decade after the publication of the Science and Society report by the House of Lords, which introduced concepts such as dialogue and public engagement that significantly contributed to change theories and practices of science communication, it seemed reasonable to take some...

(English) The web site design and management of our institute has required more and more specialized competencies over the time. Our aim is to optimise the service offered by the web pages for both internal and external users. Our approach is to develop and apply data mining methods to web data,...

(English) From 2001 to 2007 the Irpps realized the UNDER-18 project in the framework of the surveys on opinions and attitudes toward demographic change of the Institute. UNDER-18 was carried out in collaboration with local authorities of Venice, Salerno, Lucca e Milano. The paper presents a...

(English) This working paper contains the Policy oriented executive summary and the National report prepared by the IRPPS-CNR team in the framework of the European research project IDEA (Mediterranean and Eastern European countries as new immigration destinations in the European Union). The main...

(English) This paper examines the issue of citizen participation, one of the most important pieces of the debate on democracy. This article compares two different experiences of participation: participation in support of an election campaign and participation in an experience of participatory...

(English) This working paper presents the research report on the Policy Delphi survey titled “Roma Sport 2020”. There was a need to conduct a study on the role and potential of sport in order to enhance its educational dimension and to address the urgent problem of the sedentary lifestyle of...