Quality of life in Italy / Social Indicators Research Series Bd.48 (PDF)

Component of the Scientific Committee for the Measurement of Wellbeing (Commissione scientifica per la misura del benessere) established at Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) on April 2011 - Cooperating with the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) on quality-of-life and wellbeing issues - Member of several international associations, many scientific journals' editorial board, scientific committees and session organizer/chair of numerous international conferences. - Author of many publications on methodological issues concerning mainly indicators construction and subjective data assessment. Main research interests concern: . data production (with particular reference to subjective data assessment), . data analysis (with particular reference to multivariate analysis, scaling models and composite indicator construction), and . data presentation and dissemination (with particular reference to defining a model aimed at assessing the quality of communication in statistics). Giampaolo Nuvolati is Associate Professor at the University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy) where he teaches Urban Sociology and has developed and coordinated several theoretical studies and empirical research on social indicators and quality of life. He has co-operated to many European research projects oriented to define and to measure living conditions in urban contexts (for example the Project "Urban Indicators" for the EU Committee of the Regions, the Project "Guidebook on Using Indicators for Social Cohesion", for the Council of Europe; the Project "Urban Development Programs, Urban Governance, Social Inclusion & Sustainability" for the EU - DG Research). In 2003-2004, he was member of the Italian Governmental Guarantee Commission on Statistical Information for the Program: "Statistics for Metropolitan Areas, Proposals for an Integrated System" where he studied and compared different approaches for analysing resident and non-resident metropolitan populations. He has developed studies concerning the relationships between spatial and temporal mobility, between services accessibility and quality of life in local communities, between sociology, urban spaces and literature (The flâneur in the city: from Baudelaire to the postomodernists, 2006). He is author of many publications on social indicators and quality of life. He is member of Board of Directors of ISQOLS (The International Society for the Quality-of-Life Studies).