METHODS article
Front. Sociol.
Sec. Sociology of Stratification
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1620096
This article is part of the Research Topic(Mis)perceptions of Inequality as a Social IssueView all articles
A Comprehensive Overview of a Large-Scale Survey on Inequality Perceptions (IneqPer) in Italy
Provisionally accepted
Nevena Kulic1*
Olga Griaznova1Eleonora Clerici1
DANIELA BELLANI2
Debora Mantovani3
Loris Vergolini3Francesco Scervini1- 1University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- 2Catholic University of Sacro Coure, Milan, Italy
- 3University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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The article describes the content, the methodology and the selected results deriving from a large-scale cross-sectional IneqPer survey in Italy (n=12000, 2024/2025) aimed at understanding the determinants of inequality perceptions and their consequences for public opinion. The dataset offers novel dimensions that include the questions on global inequality and global redistribution, individual position in global distribution, the perceived social mobility in the society, perceived gender inequality and perceptions of discrimination against immigrants, among others. Moreover, for a number of questions, it offers a possibility of cross-validation with a range of recent datasets including European Social Survey (ESS10) from 2020, European Value Study (2017) as a part of Joint EVS/WVS 2017-2022 dataset, and the International Social Survey Programme (2019). The first results show that Italians indeed recognize inequality along all dimensions (e.g. socio-economic inequality, gender inequality and inequality between migrants and natives), yet they do not strongly perceive themselves as personally affected by discrimination. Moreover, although cross-validation checks reveal a strong alignment between IneqPer data and other international value surveys, respondents in the IneqPer dataset tend to express slightly more progressive views.
Keywords: Inequality, perceptions, socio-economic status, gender, immigration, Italy
Received: 29 Apr 2025; Accepted: 09 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Kulic, Griaznova, Clerici, BELLANI, Mantovani, Vergolini and Scervini. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Nevena Kulic, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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