1 SUBNATIONAL ESTIMATION OF FINANCIAL POVERTY INDICATORS BY HOUSEHOLD TYPOLOGY

In recent years, the measure of regional disparities on household poverty and social exclusion has received increasing attention by policy makers and this has produced a growing demand of sub-national statistical information on income parameters. Besides, many studies have shown a strong connection between poverty and some characteristics of the households such as their composition, highlighting the concentration of the greatest economic difficulties in particular household typologies. For this reason, the aim of the work is to provide estimates of some poverty indicators for domains defined by cross-classifying the household typology and the administrative region, on the basis of data collected for Italy by the new “European Union – Statistics on Income and Living Conditions” survey (EU-SILC). The necessity of simultaneously estimating more than one parameter is due to the multidimensionality of the studied phenomenon. In particular, for the moment we focus on three poverty rates based on three different thresholds, so to distinguish between very poo