Italian Provinces by “Quality of Life” (QoL) – Developed by IlSole24Ore, it gives scores to provinces by ‘Liveability’: Education, Sport amenities, Job availability/Job quality, Healthcare, Diet, Crime, Women’s parity, Environmental, even how comfy the weather is, and many other metrics of QoL

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  1. IlSole24Ore is an Economics Magazine – in style, I’d say it’s midway between Bloomberg and The Economist. It might have less articles written about general economics written by economists than The Economist, but more than Bloomberg, also like Bloomberg it focuses more on general things too, it’s less strict than the Economist in that regard.

    It’s also a bit more honest to itself and to its readers than both the Economist and Bloomberg – as both tend to be very formal and very set into one specific leaning (Il Sole still is, but a bit less). But the Economist for sure is “higher quality” than Il Sole

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    **Here’s their** [**Main Scoring and Ranking of Italian Provinces, with the evaluations on the single categories of quality**](https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/qualita-della-vita/tabelle/#) **unfortunately I couldn’t see anywhere where one can click to translate to English, but I think one can still make do on the website with a bit of mental effort.**

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    As you an see on the top left one can click and see a breakdown by each criteria:

    1. Wealth and Consumption (with its related subcategories like value added by inhabitant, debt, how easy it is to afford living space, average pension of pensioners, etc.)
    2. Business and Work (having subcategories like rate of workforce, NEET rate, innovativeness of start-ups, number of foreign businesses, export, digitalisation of business, youth entrepreunership, women-related parity of work, bankrupcy, etc.)
    3. Justice and Safety (Crime stuff like rate of burglary, robbery, theft, car accident, kidnapping, kidnapping of minors, women’s safety, money laundering)
    4. Demography and Society (Life expectancy at birth, Migration rate, Attainment of tertiary degree, Birth rate, Medical Specialism – like how many specialised doctors there are, how well niches are covered by specialists, and other subcategories)
    5. Environment and Services (Subcats like Public transportation, Renewable Energy, Recycling rate, Municipalities expenditures on social matters, digitalisation of the cities, how comfortable is the climate, etc)
    6. Culture and Free Time (Bookshops, Museum Heritage/Museum Quality and Quantity, Cultural offering, Quantity and Quality of Restaurants, Gym+Communal Swimming Pools*+Spas and Thermal Baths, Agriturism, expenditure by the municipalities on culture, Rate of Reading/How much the population reads, Sport Index/Quality of Sport amenities)

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    * I don’t know how they’re called in English

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    **Here’s the main article commenting on the ranking** [**Main Article, with links to the composite subcategories (Those with complex scoring system)**](https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/qualita-della-vita/#)

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    Some of the subcategories of the index which are given more weight to the total score than other subcategories, are composite index of its own. Women’s rights is an index of its own that works as a subcategory of Business and Work, but one that is given more weight to the total score than say innovativeness of start ups.

    There’s plenty of these: Women’s Index which evaluates jobs crime self-expression etc, Weather Index (which I find curious, it’s like, how many heatweaves there are per year, how many days of rain, how many of heavy rain, how many very cold days there are, how much sunlight), Urban Ecosystem, Sport Index, Crime Index, Quality of Life of different Generations.

    The special indexes are all linked in the main article that comments on the ranking

  2. Always been curious regarding the difference in wealth / development of Italy’s northeast / west vs the south.

    Is it a mentality thing? Or is there objectively more wealth in the form natural resources in those areas?

  3. I’m always a bit sceptical when it comes to these quality of life rankings. Quality of life is something very subjective. You can have a miserable life in Milan and a fantastic life in Sicily. I think overall “soft” factors like friends and family matter much more than income.

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