Well-Being in the Italian Regions Over Time

Pierpaolo D’Urso (), Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo (), Livia Giovanni () and Riccardo Massari ()
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Pierpaolo D’Urso: Sapienza University of Rome
Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo: Sapienza University of Rome
Livia Giovanni: Department of Political Sciences, LUISS Guido Carli
Riccardo Massari: Sapienza University of Rome

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2022, vol. 161, issue 2, No 12, 599-627

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we define clusters of homogeneous Italian regions with respect to the evolution over time of well-being. In particular we identify three partitions of the Italian regions based on the yearly time series of the economic, social and environmental dimensions of the BES (equitable and sustainable well-being), in the period 2010–2016. The partitions are obtained using a Dynamic Time Warping-based Fuzzy C-Medoids clustering model for multivariate time series. The results show a territorial gap between northern and southern regions with respect to the economic, social and environmental dimensions. The central regions have a diversified behavior with respect to the different dimensions.

Keywords: Well-being; Italian regions; Dynamic time warping; Fuzzy C-medoids model with exponential transformation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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