Divided plates: unveiling Italy's unequal school food policies

Figures & data

Figure 1. Full-day schooling students over total students in primary schools, per-capita income and territorial division, Italian Administrative Regions (with the exclusion of Val d'Aosta and Trentino-Alto Adige), 2020. Source: Italian Ministry of Education, Istat.

Figure 2. Full-time students over total students in primary schools in Italian municipalities and their contiguous areas, 2020–2021. Source: Italian Ministry of Education.

Figure 3. Full-time students over total students in primary schools in Italian municipalities classified as either ‘central’ or ‘peripheral’ by the National Strategy for Inner Areas, 2020–2021. Source: Italian Ministry of Education.

Table 1. Correlation between full-time schooling in Italian primary schools per Province, and several social, economic, employment, education and territorial indicators, 2020.

Indicator		Pearson correlation with the percentage of full-time students
1	Schools with a space for consuming meals over total schools	+0.576**
2	Presence of ‘special spaces’ in schools***	+0.369**
3	The average age of school buildings	+0.239*
4	Value added per inhabitant	+0.588**
5	Percentage of graduates	+0.336**
6	Population density	+0.334**
7	Percentage of the territory covered by forests	+0.196
8	Mountainous areas over the total territory	−0.047
9	Labour force participation rate	+0.520**
10	Employment rate	+0.512**
11	Unemployment rate	−0.432**
12	Labour force participation rate for women	+0.540**
13	Female employment rate	+0.541**
14	Female unemployment rate	−0.456**
15	Males-females difference in labour force participation	−0.526**
16	Males-females difference in employment rates	−0.526**
17	Places available in pre-primary schools, over 0–2 years children	+0.515**
18	Municipal budget for childcare services	+0.500**
19	Schools’ self-evaluation of the regularity of students' careers	+0.108
20	Schools’ self-evaluation of students’ skills in Italian and mathematics	+0.049

Sources: Italian Ministry of Education, Invalsi, Istat.

*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level, 2-tailed.

**Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level, 2-tailed.

***Number of gyms, swimming pools, technical or PC rooms, collective rooms and auditoriums available, weighted according to their relative frequency.