IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/mul/jkrece/doi10.1446-37386y2012i1p113-124.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Quality of life, cultural consumptions and local public services in Rome

Author

Listed:
  • Federico Tomassi

Abstract

Satisfaction about quality of life and 18 local public services in Rome is surveyed every year by a random sample of 2,000 citizens. From the principal component analysis two components result, i.e. 'material wellness' and 'cultural wellness'. Some excellent cultural municipal services ('Palaexpo', 'Auditorium', museums and libraries) are strongly associated among them but scarcely with quality of life. On the contrary, public transportation and hygiene services are very close to quality of life, so that their poor satisfaction strongly undermines overall wellness. That appears to be in contrast with economic theory and empirical surveys, according to which cultural consumption should be more and more important when income in- creases, especially in Rome where average income and education are higher than in Italy. In cities where 'material wellness' is not adequately satisfied, it is likely that the 'addictive goods' theory is not sufficient to explain the effects of cultural consumption on quality of life.

Suggested Citation

  • Federico Tomassi, 2012. "Quality of life, cultural consumptions and local public services in Rome," Economia della Cultura, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 1, pages 113-124.
    • Handle: RePEc:mul:jkrece:doi:10.1446/37386:y:2012:i:1:p:113-124
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.1446/37386
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1446/37386
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:mul:jkrece:doi:10.1446/37386:y:2012:i:1:p:113-124. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.rivisteweb.it/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.