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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.
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:
National Statistical Institute (Istituto nazionale di statistica)
brait@istat.it