README

Provides two data sets from the Italian Survey on Household and Wealth, 2008 and 2010, a sample survey conducted by the Bank of Italy every two years.

• italy08: The 2010 survey covered 13,702 individuals.

• italy10: The 2010 survey covered 13,702 individuals, while the 2008 survey covered 13,734 individuals.

Source: (https://www.bancaditalia.it/pubblicazioni/indagine-famiglie/bil-fam2012/index.html?com.dotmarketing.htmlpage.language=1)

Both data sets contain the following categorical variables that can be used to perform record linkage. The variables are given in Italian and we translate them in English.

• ANASC (year of birth)
• NASCREG (working status)
• CIT (employment status)
• ACOM4C (branch of activity)
• STUDIO (town size)
• IREG (geographical area of birth)
• SEX (sex)
• QUAL (whether or not Italian national)
• SETT (highest educational level obtained)
• Q (quality of life status)
• id (unique identifier based upon a type of social security identifier that is thought to be very reliable).

Please see Steorts (2015)for more information about this data set or performing record linkage.

Installation

# Install the released version from CRAN
install.packages(“italy”)

# Install the development version from GitHub
devtools::install_github(“resteorts/italy”)