Case study report Po Italy - VU University, Institute for Environmental ...

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4.1.2 Socio-economic characteristics
Socio-economic characteristics investigated are: education level, job and family income. In Italy the education system is
composed by four steps (primary, junior high school, secondary and university). The higher education level completed
is the secondary school in most cases. A large part of older people have completed only the primary school, while the
youngest have completed the secondary and/or university (Table 5).
Table 5: Joint distribution of age and education level
Age
primary
junior high
school
education level
secondary university - Tot
65 18 5 2 2 27
no
answer 1 1 2
Tot 23 44 104 70 1 242
The 23.1% of people are students and 16.1% retired; this fact depends on that in these classes people have more free
time so it is more frequent to meet them in the street. The higher job frequency is for the employers in the service sector
(29.3%) and factory workers (12.0%). Fisherman category is not present. However, the classification procedure was
difficult because some work categories were not clear for respondents (i.e. free lancers are classified in the service
sector so the class percentage increases). In the report, the low percentage of some worker classes (such as employed in
tourism sector, health care sector) is caused by difficulty to identify these categories during the day, in the working
hours (Table 6).
Table 6: Job distribution
Job Tot %
Unemployed/looking for work 5 2.1
Farmer 2 0.8
Employed in the tourism sector (hotel, restaurant, camping etc.) 4 1.7
Employed in the service sector (bank, administrator, etc.) 71 29.3
Employed in the industry sector (factory worker) 29 12.0
Employed in the health care sector 6 2.5
Employed in the education sector 14 5.8
Retired 39 16.1
Student 56 23.1
Housewife/man 14 5.8
Other 2 0.8
Tot 242 100.0
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