In 2020, because of the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic, the Bank of Italy has suspended the fieldwork activities of the surveys on households carried out through personal interviews, in order to ensure the health of both households and interviewers. In order to fill the information gap and gather timely information on the economic situation of households during the pandemic crisis, the Bank of Italy has launched a Special Survey of Italian Households, administered using remote devices.
Anonymized survey data are distributed for research purposes only. The use of the data is under full and exclusive responsibility of the author and may not involve the Bank of Italy in any way. Authors who refer in their publications to results obtained with the survey data are required to cite the source as "Bank of Italy, Special Survey of Italian Households". The data are available in three different formats: ASCII ('comma separated' CSV files), SAS and Stata.
Wave 1
The first wave of the survey was conducted between April and May 2020 and the total sample amounted to about 3.000 individuals, interviewed using different survey modes. The main results of the survey and the methodological aspects are described in the paper "The main results of the special survey of Italian households in 2020" (Covid-19 Notes, June 2020, only in Italian) and in the box 'Italian households' assessments and expectations during the current public health emergency', Annual Report for 2019.
- Wave 1 - Data description (only in Italian)pdf 85.2 KB Publish date::07 December 2020
- Wave 1 - Database SASzip 90.4 KB Publish date::07 December 2020
- Wave 1 - Database STATAzip 51.4 KB Publish date::07 December 2020
- Wave 1 - Database ASCIIzip 59.3 KB Publish date::07 December 2020
Wave 2
The second wave of the survey was conducted between August and September 2020 and the total sample amounted to more than 2.300 households, almost 900 had also been interviewed in the first edition of the survey. The main results of the survey and the methodological aspects are described in the paper "The main results of the second wave of the special survey of Italian households in 2020" (Covid-19 Notes, November 2020, only in Italian) and in the box 'Italian households during the epidemic: the Bank of Italy's survey', in Economic Bulletin, 4, 2020.
- Wave 2 - Data description (only in Italian)pdf 966.2 KB Publish date::19 October 2021
- Wave 2 - Database SASzip 143.9 KB Publish date::19 October 2021
- Wave 2 - Database STATAzip 75.6 KB Publish date::19 October 2021
- Wave 2 - Database ASCIIzip 96.8 KB Publish date::19 October 2021
Wave 3
The third wave of the survey was conducted at the end of November 2020 and the total sample amounted to more than 2.000 households, which had also been interviewed in the second edition of the survey. The main results of the survey and the methodological aspects are described in the paper "The main results of the third wave of the special survey of Italian households in 2020" (Covid-19 Notes, March 2021, only in Italian) and in the box 'Italian households during the epidemic: the Bank of Italy's survey' in Economic Bulletin, 1, 2021.
- Wave 3 - Data description (only in Italian)pdf 1022.0 KB Publish date::19 October 2021
- Wave 3 - Database SASzip 141.5 KB Publish date::19 October 2021
- Wave 3 - Database STATAzip 73.5 KB Publish date::19 October 2021
- Wave 3 - Database ASCIIzip 86.9 KB Publish date::19 October 2021
Wave 4
The fourth wave of the survey was conducted between February and March 2021 and the total sample amounted to more than 2.800 households, almost 1.800 had also been interviewed in the third edition of the survey. The main results of the survey and the methodological aspects are described in the paper "The main results of the fourth wave of the special survey of Italian households in 2020" (Covid-19 Notes, May 2021) and in the box 'Italian households during the epidemic: the Bank of Italy's survey' in Economic Bulletin, 2, 2021.
- Wave 4 - Data description (only in Italian)pdf 936.7 KB Publish date::19 October 2021
- Wave 4 - Database SASzip 216.5 KB Publish date::19 October 2021
- Wave 4 - Database STATAzip 114.5 KB Publish date::19 October 2021
- Wave 4 - Database ASCIIzip 143.4 KB Publish date::19 October 2021
Wave 5
The fifth wave of the survey was conducted at the end of April 2021 and the total sample amounted to around 2.500 households, which had also been interviewed in the fourth edition of the survey. The main results of the survey and the methodological aspects are described in the paper 'The main results of the fifth wave of the special survey of Italian households' (Covid-19 Notes, September 2021, only in Italian).
- Wave 5 - Data description (only in Italian)pdf 944.5 KB Publish date::02 December 2021
- Wave 5 - Database SASzip 182.2 KB Publish date::02 December 2021
- Wave 5 - Database STATAzip 94.9 KB Publish date::02 December 2021
- Wave 5 - Database ASCIIzip 113.4 KB Publish date::02 December 2021
Wave 6
The sixth wave of the survey was conducted between August and September 2021 and the total sample amounted to more than 2.000 households, which had also been interviewed in the fifth edition of the survey. The main results of the survey and the methodological aspects are described in the paper "The main results of the sixth wave of the special survey of Italian households" (Covid-19 Notes, November 2021) and in the box 'Italian households during the pandemic: the Bank of Italy's survey' in Economic Bulletin, 4, 2021.
- Wave 6 - Data description (only in Italian)pdf 1.0 MB Publish date::13 June 2022
- Wave 6 - Database SASzip 156.1 KB Publish date::13 June 2022
- Wave 6 - Database STATAzip 87.0 KB Publish date::13 June 2022
- Wave 6 - Database ASCIIzip 93.1 KB Publish date::13 June 2022
