Abstract This study generates an integrated database to measure living standards in Italy using propensity score matching. We follow the recommendations of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress proposing that income, consumption of market goods and nonmarket activities, and wealth, rather than production, should be evaluated jointly in order to appropriately measure material welfare. Our integrated database is similar in design to the one built for the United States by the Levy Economics Institute to measure the multiple dimensions of well-being. In the United States, as is the case for Italy and most European countries, the state does not maintain a unified database to measure household economic well-being, and data sources about income and employment surveys and other surveys on wealth and the use of time have to be statistically matched. The measure of well-being is therefore the result of a multidimensional evaluation process no longer associated with a single indicator, as is usually the case when measuring gross domestic product. The estimation of individual and social welfare, multidimensional poverty and inequality does require an integrated living standard database where information about consumption, income, time use and subjective well-being are jointly available. With this objective in mind, we combine information available in four different surveys: the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions Survey, the Household Budget Survey, the Time Use Survey, and the Household Conditions and Social Capital Survey. We perform three different statistical matching procedures to link the relevant dimensions of living standards contained in each survey and report both the statistical and economic tests carried out to evaluate the quality of the procedure at a high level of detail.

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衡量生活水平的综合数据库

摘要这项研究建立了一个综合数据库，使用倾向得分匹配来衡量意大利的生活水平。我们遵循衡量经济绩效和社会进步的委员会的建议，即建议对收入，市场商品和非市场活动的消费以及财富而非生产进行联合评估，以便适当地衡量物质福利。我们的综合数据库的设计与利维经济研究所为美国建立的用于测量幸福感的多个维度的数据库相似。在美国（与意大利和大多数欧洲国家一样），该州没有维护用于衡量家庭经济状况的统一数据库，收入和就业调查以及其他有关财富和时间使用情况的调查的数据来源必须进行统计匹配。因此，福祉的衡量标准是不再与单个指标相关联的多维评估过程的结果，这通常是衡量国内生产总值时的情况。对个人和社会福利，多维贫困和不平等的估计确实需要一个综合的生活水平数据库，该数据库可以共同获得有关消费，收入，时间使用和主观幸福感的信息。考虑到这一目标，我们结合了四种不同调查中可获得的信息：欧洲联盟收入和生活状况统计调查，家庭预算调查，时间使用状况调查以及家庭状况和社会资本调查。