Promising Practice

Discrimination Survey

The 2023 Discrimination Survey will monitor opinions and experiences of discrimination. The objective is to ensure an adequate impact assessment of policies in the field of equality and non-discrimination data collection, and it will cover all grounds of discrimination and several areas of life, such as education, employment, housing, health, access to goods and services, and political participation. A pilot survey will be carried out in 2022.
Country
Italy
Type
Operational guidelines
Ensure comprehensiveness
Enhance validity and reliability
Category
Age
Disability
Gender identity or expression
Racial or ethnic origin
Religion or belief
Sex
Sexual orientation
Includes multiple / intersectional discrimination

 


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Why was the practice needed?

In Italy, official statistics are not broken down by ethnic origin, either in the Census of Population or in large-scale statistical surveys. The latest Discrimination Survey was conducted in 2011. To fill this data gap, the 2023 Discrimination Survey will monitor opinions and experiences of discrimination.

The objective is to ensure an adequate impact assessment of policies in the field of equality and non-discrimination data collection, and it will cover all grounds of discrimination and several areas of life, such as education, employment, housing, health, access to goods and services, and political participation.

The survey is intended to highlight the existence of potentially vulnerable groups through self-identification by individuals who are the subject of data collection based on characteristics such as physical appearance, religion, racial or ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation and/or gender identity.

How was it implemented?

A pilot survey will be carried out in 2022 with the purpose of calibrating the sample by analysing the response rates and testing the wording of the questions, and the sample size will be enlarged compared with the previous discrimination survey carried out in 2011.

Respondents will be invited to answer two questionnaires:

  1. main questionnaire, designed to detect opinions on the prevalence of the main forms of discrimination;
  2. secondary questionnaire (on a voluntary basis), designed to highlight the existence of potentially vulnerable groups and identify episodes of discrimination personally experienced by the respondent.

Outputs

Key success factors

  • Data not available

Technical information

  • Data sources covered: Household or individual surveys
  • Areas of life covered: Employment; Education; Health; Housing and living conditions; Access to goods and services
  • Target audience: Target actors: national equality body (UNAR), public administrations, civil society organisations, media, general population. Target groups: general population, women, ethnic minorities, migrants, LGBT people, persons with disabilities, young or older persons, religious groups.
  • Duration: Occasional
  • Geographical scope: National
  • Leading institution: National Statistical Institute (Istituto nazionale di statistica)
  • Other organisations involved/consulted: Data not available
  • Financial & human resources: Budget: Data not available; Source of the budget: National Statistical Institute; Staff: Data not available

Contacts

National Statistical Institute (Istituto nazionale di statistica)

brait@istat.it