Over one million Italian families
do not have a member bringing home income from work, ISTAT said
in updated figures for 2016 on Tuesday.
The national statistics agency said that there were 1.085
million jobless households last year, down 0.7% on the 1.092
million in 2015.
There are 970,000 Italian families, with or without children,
where only the woman works while the man is seeking work or
inactive (a pensioner, or otherwise out of the job market),
ISTAT said.
The figure was for married couples or co-habiting partners
aged between 25 and 64, the statistics agency said.
The jobless families amount to 6.6% of the families present
on the labour market, which are 16.5 million, ISTAT went on to
say.
For the one million at zero employment, in fact, there are
13.9 million in which all the working forces are actively
employed, it said.
Getting back to the households without work, ISTAT said
448,000 are couples with children and 290,000 are families with
a single component, more often men than women (178,000 to
against 113,000).
This is followed by 222,000 single-parent households (and
here women are in the majority at 192,000) and by 80,000
families without children.
As has been a constant trend over decades, the most families
without income from work are in the poorer south of Italy, the
Mezzogiorno (587,000), followed by the North (300,000) and the
Centre (198,000).
Analysing the unemployment rate of people between the ages of
25 and 64 and setting the data against their roles in the
family, it is to be noted that the highest values are registered
for single-parent households (12%), while singles are much
better off (8.4%).
Looking at who is part of couples with children, it is to be
underlined that as the number of children rises, so too does the
unemployment rate (7.3% if there is only one child, 7.7% if it
two and 10% if there are three or more).
Couples or co-habiting partners without children account for
only 7.6%.
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