Cross Region and Economic Profile Italian Households Well-being Comparisons

The issues of household and individual well-being, poverty have in recent years attained a crucial relevance in the framework of globalization which has introduced problems that have never before arisen and proposed researches for explanations and solutions, which unfortunately are still far from being found, at least on an acceptable scale. In this paper, starting from “Banca d’Italia” budget survey data, we used two different approaches to estimate equivalence scales, in order to calculate equivalent incomes for each household of the sample. These equivalent incomes are then used to compare household welfare under territorial divisions.