This is a dataset we are building together during the Open Economics Hackathon on January 28. It includes indicators of social progress on a regional level in Italy.

The R & D is defined as "creative work undertaken systematically in order to increase the stock of knowledge (including knowledge of mankind, culture and society) and to use...

Students in tertiary education as % of the population aged 20-24 years at regional level. Tertiary education includes both programmes which are largely theoretically based and...

One of the main output indicators by which we measure the innovative activity of a country is the number of registered patents. These are derived from administrative sources...

Income distribution Inequality The Gini index is a composite measure of the degree of inequality of income distribution and is calculated on the equivalent household income,...

The employment rate is calculated by dividing the number of persons aged 20 to 64 in employment by the total population of the same age group. The indicator is based on the EU...

Early leaver from education and training generally refers to a person aged 18 to 24 who has finished no more than a lower secondary education and is not involved in further...