L’article résume les tendances (en termes d’intensité et de calendrier) de la fécondité, de la mortalité et de la mobilité des personnes à l’œuvre depuis les années 1950 dans les différents pays du Bassin méditerranéen et analyse l’impact de ces tendances sur la structure par sexe et par âge. Il conclut sur la tendance générale au vieillissement des populations considérées et sur les défis et les enjeux de société associés à ce phénomène.

While in Spain and Italy cohabitation has not acquired the same role that it has had in Northern Europe, in both of these Mediterranean countries cohabitation is no longer a marginal phenomenon. Moreover, the nature of cohabiting couples is diverse. According to the most recent FFS data, first cohabitations constitute a temporary arrangement that usually ends in the formalization of the union (marriage), and within 5 years 28.9 % of first cohabitations in Spain and 51.7 % in Italy were transformed into marriages. Within a Western context of changes in union formation patterns, the study of the choice between marriage and cohabitation as first union is of great significance. Is it possible to identify a shared pattern of union formation in Mediterranean countries like Italy and Spain? The purpose of this paper is to examine the choice between cohabitation and marriage as first union (timing, incidence and determinants) using a comparative life course approach. For the analysis of the timing and prevalence, cumulative incidence curves are calculated by birth cohorts and regions; while two semiparametric competing-risks models are estimated for the determinants of first partnership formation (one for each country), considering birth cohort, parental separation, educational attainment, employment status, age at leaving the parental home and birth of a child (the last three time-varying) as independent variables.

Despite the interventions enacted by the EU in 2009/2013 to fight HIV/AIDS, the latest Italian budget measures contain important cuts to health expenditure. These cuts are not allowing local authorities to develop health policies to fight against the epidemic in an efficient way by limiting both prevention and care. The main purpose is to analyze the incidence and policies regarding HIV/AIDS in Italy through a case study in the Apulia Region. First, are examined the national policy strategies and the modifications introduced by local authorities to face HIV/AIDS. Subsequently, are described the incidence and the main features of HIV/AIDS in Italy and Apulia; identifying the socio-demographic profile of an HIV-positive-individuals sample. The Italian situation regarding HIV/AIDS is still surrounded of shadows. The study of the infected population gives significant clues about the interventions that are needed, and constitutes the basis for public health policy and planning at a local level.

In Italy and Spain the number of migrants has strongly increased in the last 20 years, now representing over 8% of the population. The objective of this study is to compare health self-perception and access to health services between migrants and native people in these countries during the recent economic crisis that particularly affected vulnerable groups.

En España la prevalencia de las parejas de hecho no puede considerarse marginal y, a diferencia de otros países europeos como Francia, la cohabitación se considera una alternativa temporal que, generalmente, termina con la legalización de la unión (matrimonio). El propósito principal de este artículo es examinar la incidencia, duración y desarrollo de las primeras cohabitaciones a través de un enfoque comparativo basado en el curso de vida, identifi cando también los perfi les de las cohabitantes que se separan y de las que deciden casarse. Los resultados muestran que la transición de la primera cohabitación en España se caracteriza por ser muy rápida y orientada al matrimonio, con lo que puede considerarse como un preludio y no como una alternativa defi nitiva a la unión matrimonial.

The transports’ infrastructure represent a key element for the economic growth of both regions and sectors in Italy. In order to better examine it, we go through the analysis of passenger traffic making a distinction among modes of transport: railway, airport, road and sea. The study gives also a statistical overview on accidents related to the different means of transport; where the number of road accidents, despite its decline, remains very high. The paper concludes with recommendation toward strategies to implement security, particularly in those areas disadvantaged, as the Mezzogiorno.

La Statistica, in quanto comune strumento di ricerca di tutte le scienze empiriche, sia osservazionali che sperimentali, deve agevolare la comprensione di concetti soprattutto a quanti si affacciano, attraverso gli studi universitari, alle più vaste frontiere della conoscenza. Questa nuova edizione, così come le precedenti, ha come riferimento l’opera del Maestro Tommaso Salvemini, che rappresenta una vera e propria “pietra miliare” per numerose generazioni di studenti, costantemente stimolati dalle sempre più approfondite esperienze di studi da Lui condotti in oltre mezzo secolo di attività e trasfusi nelle sue note “Lezioni di Statistica”, successivamente arricchite dal contributo sostanziale del coautore di questo volume, prof. Giovanni Girone. Il presente volume è stato concepito sia per gli studenti dei Corsi di Laurea in scienze umanistiche, quali Economia, Statistica e Scienze politiche, sia per gli studenti di corsi di statistica inseriti in dipartimenti scientifici. L’obiettivo – in continuità con i volumi precedenti – è quello di stimolare una mentalità che sappia innanzitutto cogliere l’uniforme nel difforme dei fenomeni collettivi, qualunque sia la disponibilità delle informazioni empiriche e che induca a ricercare, mediante l’analisi dei dati a disposizione, le regolarità dei fenomeni singoli e le interdipendenze tra quelli legati da relazioni logiche.