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Volume LXIII nn. 3-4 – Luglio-Dicembre 2009<br />

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SUMMARY<br />

Social exclusion in Europan Regions: a multilevel latent class model<br />

The aim of this paper is the study of social exclusion in European Union,<br />

focusing on the similarities and the <strong>di</strong>fferences between the <strong>di</strong>fferent regions. We<br />

implemented a multilevel latent class model, which enables to analyse the<br />

multi<strong>di</strong>mensional nature of the concept of social exclusion, identifying <strong>di</strong>fferent<br />

profiles of in<strong>di</strong>viduals accor<strong>di</strong>ng to their perception and/or con<strong>di</strong>tion of exclusion<br />

in <strong>di</strong>fferent domains of life. The multilevel extension allows <strong>di</strong>fferentiating among<br />

the European regions, underlying the existence of <strong>di</strong>fferent concepts of social<br />

exclusion. Data for the analysis come from Eurobarometer survey 56.1 of 2001.<br />

_________________________<br />

Elena PIRANI, Research Fellow, Department of Statistics “G. Parenti”, University<br />

of Florence – pirani@ds.unifi.it

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