Educational integration of foreign citizen children in Italy: a synthetic indicator

Social inclusion and integration are prominent topics in social sciences, and specifically in the educational field, in order to contrast the experience of inequality conditions at school. Using data from the 2015 national survey on “Integration of the second generation”, the paper proposes a synthetic indicator of educational integration of second-generation children in Italy. The chosen methodology is suitable to model subjective assessments on rating scales while accounting for both agreement and heterogeneity in response patterns. L’inclusione sociale e l’integrazione rappresentano temi cruciali nelle scienze sociali ed assumono rilievo specifico nell’ambito dell’istruzione. Utilizzando i dati dell’Indagine Istat sull’integrazione delle seconde generazioni (ISG2015), lo studio propone un indicatore sintetico di integrazione scolastica che considera sia la percezione del tratto in esame che l’eterogeneità delle risposte.