Was reading [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty\_in\_Switzerland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Switzerland) and saw under “By language and national origin” that Swiss Italians are much more likely to be in danger of poverty than Swiss Germans and Swiss French. According to the linked Federal Statistical Office study ([https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/economic-social-situation-population/economic-and-social-situation-of-the-population.gnpdetail.2017-0379.html](https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/economic-social-situation-population/economic-and-social-situation-of-the-population.gnpdetail.2017-0379.html)
[https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/wirtschaftliche-soziale-situation-bevoelkerung/soziale-situation-wohlbefinden-und-armut.gnpdetail.2017-0379.html](https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/wirtschaftliche-soziale-situation-bevoelkerung/soziale-situation-wohlbefinden-und-armut.gnpdetail.2017-0379.html)), more than 20% of Italian speaking Swiss are in danger of poverty, compared to less than 10% for German and French speaking Swiss.
I’m really surprised by those statistics, does someone have more informations about that ?
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It’s true, they are the poorest a lot of them study in another region outside of their home language and stay there.
They are accurate; but keep in mind the understanding of “poverty” and “at risk of poverty” are indexed to the local reality/CPI.
A better metric, IMO, is rate of marginalisation, which more accurately reflect how likely you are to be “left out” of society.
the stereotype has always been that there aren’t very many good jobs and we have to leave to thrive.