INF/2 Italian Fertility Survey

The second Italian fertility survey INF/2 (within the UN-ECE project "Family and Fertility Surveys") was carried out between November 1995 and January 1996. It concerns the collection by interview of life course data on education, working career, partnership and reproduction, and on expected nuptiality and fertility.
Unlike the World Fertility Survey carried out around the '80s, the Family and Fertility Surveys, co-ordinated in the '90s by the Population Activity Unity of the UN Economic Commission for Europe, concerned the developed countries only, trying to improve the comparability of the observations and of the results. A closer convergence of the participating countries was one of the goals both at the stage of preparing the surveys and particularly at the stage of data analysis and management.
Data come from the Italian Survey, included in this project. 4824 women and 1206 men from 20 to 49 years of age were interviewed.

The project has benefited from the collaboration between researchers of many universities, IRP-CNR and ISTAT, and from the financial support of CNR, MURST, ISTAT.

Related publications:

- DE SANDRE P., ONGARO F., RETTAROLI R., SALVINI S. (1997), Matrimonio e figli: tra rinvio e rinuncia, il Mulino, Bologna
- DE SANDRE P., PINNELLI A., SANTINI A. (1999), Nuzialità e fecondità in trasformazione: percorsi e fattori del cambiamento, il Mulino, Bologna
- Seconda indagine sulla fecondità in Italia : Seconda indagine nazionale sulla fecondità, 1995-96 : questionari  (a cura del Gruppo nazionale di ricerca), 1999, Padova : C.L.E.U.P., available frome the Library of Statistical Sciences "B.Colombo" at the University of Padova, placement D.5.Coll.XVII.A.6