Emanuela Sala
Biographic Data
| ID | 78327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emanuela Sala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emanuela |
| FAMILY NAME | Sala |
| SIGNATURE | SALA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milano-Bicocca |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2988-579X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Is E-government an opportunity for all? Identifying barriers and enablers of E-government use among older adults in Europe
The European Union faces the dual challenges of an ageing population and the rapid digital transformation of public services through e-government. Despite the relevance of this topic, research on older adults' use of e-government remains limited. Grounded in Van Dijk's Resources and Appropriation Theory , this study aims to address this gap by examining the barriers and enablers of e-government adoption in later life across Europe. Specifically, …
Does internet use worsen old-age loneliness during pandemics? A gendered analysis of the SHARE data
Despite internet use potentially reducing loneliness among older adults during the Covid-19 pandemic, quantitative research in this area is limited. Our study addresses this gap by exploring how internet use affects loneliness worsening in old age across Europe from a gendered perspective. We adopt a comprehensive approach, considering individual and contextual factors. Using multi-level modelling, we analyse data from the Survey of Health, Agein…
Evaluating the impact of a peer-education digital literacy course on older adults' digital skills and wellbeing
The digital transition poses relevant challenges and opportunities for older adults in aging European societies. To unleash the potential of the digital transition in old age and avoid the risk of exclusion, digital education for older adults seems to be a valuable solution. One of the most suitable approaches to digital education for older adults appears to be the peer-to-peer approach. However, not much literature is available on this topic. Wi…
Are social media users more satisfied with their life than non-users? A study on older Italians
Despite older people's increasing use of social media (SM), there is relatively little research investigating the impact of SM use on wellbeing in the ageing population. This study investigates the relationship between SM use and life satisfaction, a key dimension of wellbeing, in three age groups. We focus on the Italian case, which is particularly relevant because Italy is one of the countries both with the highest incidence of older people and…
Remote recruiting and video-interviewing older people
There is an urgent need to understand the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemics on older people’s lives. However, conducting qualitative research is challenging, because of the shortage of guidelines and methodological research on how to recruit and interview participants during biological disasters, such as pandemics. This paper documents the procedures we adopted to recruit and interview 40 older people living in a rural area of Northern Italy…
Social networking sites use and life satisfaction. A quantitative study on older people living in Europe
The European ageing population poses unprecedented challenges to society as a whole. Social Networking Sites might be important tools to boost older people's well-being, strengthening and creating social connections in old age. Despite of its potentialities, there is relatively little knowledge on the impact of SNS use on older people's well-being, especially in Europe. Our study investigates the relationship between SNS use and life satisfaction…
The Gray Digital Divide in Social Networking Site Use in Europe
Social networking sites (SNSs) might be important tools to contrast social exclusion in old age. However, the so-called gray digital divide (GDD) may undermine the potentialities of SNSs. Despite its relevance, there is very little research, which documented the characteristics of the digital divide in SNS use among the old-age population in Europe. Drawing on the “ material access in resources and appropriation” theory developed by van Dijk, thi…
Mountain Mandalas
Mountain Mandalas: Shugend? in Ky?sh?, by Allan G. Grapard. Bloomsbury. 2016. 320 pp. Hb. £90. ISBN–13: 9781474249003. Pb. £31. ISBN-13: 9781350044937. Ebook £34.54. ISBN-13: 9781474249027
Killing pigs and talking tononna
This paper extends the literature on second-generation migrants by examining the construction of ethnicity (Italianitá) over time. We compare two cohorts of second-generation Italian-Australians: the post-World War II cohort and the post-1980s cohort. Ethnographic data for this research were collected with second-generation Italian-Australians in Perth over a thirty-year period. Our findings highlight important differences between these two group…
Data linkage. What opportunities for survey research
Data linkage is a practice that consists in the linkage of survey data to administrative records held by different bodies, such as government departments, local authorities and universities. This practice has become increasingly popular in the survey world in the recent years. Indeed, a number of surveys have planned and are planning to link their survey data to the respondents' administrative records. For example, following on a 2009 German pilo…
Personalized SMS, Survey Participation and Data quality – The Italian Case
A number of papers have found that personalization of salutations in e-mail communications may lead to higher response rates. Given their widespread use, Short Text Messages (SMS) may also be useful contact modes in surveys. Using experimental data from an online survey on Italian graduates, this work intends to evaluate the impact of personalized SMS salutations on response and measurement error. We find evidence that personalization has a posit…
Leaving Family to Return to Family
This article examines "roots migration" (visits and repatriations) of second-generation Italian-Australians to their ancestral homeland. Despite the current economic climate, these young adults have moved to Italy, hence their motivation for migration goes beyond economic drivers and is best explained by psychosocial factors. Drawing on ethnographic analysis, our aim is to highlight the importance of the dimension of the family, which has tended …
I Don't Do Much in the Community as an Italian, but in My Family I Do
This paper examines second-generation Italian Australian constructions of ethnicity through longitudinal ethnographic analysis. Original data for this research were collected with second-generation Italian-Australian youth in 1985–1986 and follow-up research was conducted with the same informants more than three decades later. Our findings lead us to critique Herbert Gans’s concept of symbolic ethnicity, which suggests that ethnicity among second…
RC33 Rules for Session Organization (According to RC Statutes)
Undercoverage Bias in Telephone Surveys in Europe
In Europe, list frame sampling methods are often adopted in computer-assisted telephone interviewing surveys. When sampling frames (i.e., white pages) are incomplete, the quality of the resulting survey data may be seriously jeopardised. In 2012, only 50% of Italians are included in the sampling frame; the remaining are excluded, as they do not own a landline telephone (32%) or their landline telephone number is unlisted (18%). This paper explore…
Propensity to consent to data linkage
When performing data linkage, survey respondents need to provide their informed consent. Since not all respondents agree to this request, the linked data-set will have fewer observations than the survey data-set alone and bias may be introduced. By focusing on the role that survey design features play in gaining respondents’ consent, this paper provides an innovative contribution to the studies in this field. Analysing experimental data collected…
Exploring the impact of male and female facial attractiveness on occupational prestige
Correlates of Obtaining Informed Consent to Data Linkage
In the United Kingdom, in order to link individual-level administrative records to survey responses, respondents need to give their consent. Using an unprecedented set of respondent, interview, and interviewer characteristics derived from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) matched with an interviewer survey, this research investigates which characteristics influence consent to adding health and social security records to the survey respons…
It Is Time Computers Do Clever Things
Despite the increased interest in assessing the effects of dependent interviewing (DI) on data quality, the impact of DI on interviewer burden and interviewer-respondent interaction remains currently unexplored and undocumented. Drawing on Japec's work, this article attempts to evaluate the impact of DI on interviewer burden and describes the mechanisms by which DI affects perceived interviewer burden and ultimately data quality. We use a diverse…
When Change Matters
The authors examine how questionnaire structure affects survey interaction in the context of dependent interviewing (DI). DI is widely used in panel surveys to reduce observed spurious change in respondent circumstances. Although a growing literature generally finds beneficial measurement properties, little is known about how DI functions in interviews. The authors systematically observed survey interaction using behavior coding and analyzed an a…
Real Italians and wogs’
We explore the discursive construction of Italian identity among a bilingual sample of Italian‐born Western Australians. Focus groups were held with two groups: Italians who had migrated to Australia as children and a group who had migrated as adults. We found intra‐ and inter‐individual differences in identity construction, with much discourse devoted to demonstrating Italian authenticity and negotiating ethnic category boundaries. Shared marker…
Older carers in the UK
The aim of this paper is to disentangle the role of gender and partnership status in the caring commitments of older people (age 65 and over). Logistic and interval regression models are applied to individual records from the 2001 UK Census to estimate: (1) the impact of gender on the likelihood of being a career; (2) the impact of gender on the hours of care provided; and (3) the impact of gender on the likelihood of being a career for different…
The Feasibility of linking household survey and administrative record data
Linkage of household survey responses with administrative data is increasingly on the agenda. Unique individual identifiers have clear benefits for making linkages but are also subject to problems of survey item non-response and measurement error. Our experimental study that linked survey responses to UK government agency records on benefits and tax credits elucidates this trade-off. We compare five linkage criteria: one based on a respon-dent-su…
Measuring Change in Employment Characteristics
We have demonstrated that the use of PDI results in lower levels of observed change in each of a number of characteristics of the respondent's employment. The reduction in observed change is particularly pronounced for SOC, SIC, and the number of employees at the respondent's workplace. This reduction in observed change appears to represent a reduction in measurement error as the effect of PDI is particularly pronounced amongst respondents who ha…
Propensity to consent to data linkage
When performing data linkage, survey respondents need to provide their informed consent. Since not all respondents agree to this request, the linked data-set will have fewer observations than the survey data-set alone and bias may be introduced. By focusing on the role that survey design features play in gaining respondents’ consent, this paper provides an innovative contribution to the studies in this field. Analysing experimental data collected…
The Gray Digital Divide in Social Networking Site Use in Europe
Social networking sites (SNSs) might be important tools to contrast social exclusion in old age. However, the so-called gray digital divide (GDD) may undermine the potentialities of SNSs. Despite its relevance, there is very little research, which documented the characteristics of the digital divide in SNS use among the old-age population in Europe. Drawing on the “ material access in resources and appropriation” theory developed by van Dijk, thi…
Leaving Family to Return to Family
This article examines "roots migration" (visits and repatriations) of second-generation Italian-Australians to their ancestral homeland. Despite the current economic climate, these young adults have moved to Italy, hence their motivation for migration goes beyond economic drivers and is best explained by psychosocial factors. Drawing on ethnographic analysis, our aim is to highlight the importance of the dimension of the family, which has tended …
Correlates of Obtaining Informed Consent to Data Linkage
In the United Kingdom, in order to link individual-level administrative records to survey responses, respondents need to give their consent. Using an unprecedented set of respondent, interview, and interviewer characteristics derived from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) matched with an interviewer survey, this research investigates which characteristics influence consent to adding health and social security records to the survey respons…
Real Italians and wogs’
We explore the discursive construction of Italian identity among a bilingual sample of Italian‐born Western Australians. Focus groups were held with two groups: Italians who had migrated to Australia as children and a group who had migrated as adults. We found intra‐ and inter‐individual differences in identity construction, with much discourse devoted to demonstrating Italian authenticity and negotiating ethnic category boundaries. Shared marker…
Older carers in the UK
The aim of this paper is to disentangle the role of gender and partnership status in the caring commitments of older people (age 65 and over). Logistic and interval regression models are applied to individual records from the 2001 UK Census to estimate: (1) the impact of gender on the likelihood of being a career; (2) the impact of gender on the hours of care provided; and (3) the impact of gender on the likelihood of being a career for different…
Measuring Change in Employment Characteristics
We have demonstrated that the use of PDI results in lower levels of observed change in each of a number of characteristics of the respondent's employment. The reduction in observed change is particularly pronounced for SOC, SIC, and the number of employees at the respondent's workplace. This reduction in observed change appears to represent a reduction in measurement error as the effect of PDI is particularly pronounced amongst respondents who ha…
Social networking sites use and life satisfaction. A quantitative study on older people living in Europe
The European ageing population poses unprecedented challenges to society as a whole. Social Networking Sites might be important tools to boost older people's well-being, strengthening and creating social connections in old age. Despite of its potentialities, there is relatively little knowledge on the impact of SNS use on older people's well-being, especially in Europe. Our study investigates the relationship between SNS use and life satisfaction…
Exploring the impact of male and female facial attractiveness on occupational prestige
Remote recruiting and video-interviewing older people
There is an urgent need to understand the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemics on older people’s lives. However, conducting qualitative research is challenging, because of the shortage of guidelines and methodological research on how to recruit and interview participants during biological disasters, such as pandemics. This paper documents the procedures we adopted to recruit and interview 40 older people living in a rural area of Northern Italy…
I Don't Do Much in the Community as an Italian, but in My Family I Do
This paper examines second-generation Italian Australian constructions of ethnicity through longitudinal ethnographic analysis. Original data for this research were collected with second-generation Italian-Australian youth in 1985–1986 and follow-up research was conducted with the same informants more than three decades later. Our findings lead us to critique Herbert Gans’s concept of symbolic ethnicity, which suggests that ethnicity among second…
The Feasibility of linking household survey and administrative record data
Linkage of household survey responses with administrative data is increasingly on the agenda. Unique individual identifiers have clear benefits for making linkages but are also subject to problems of survey item non-response and measurement error. Our experimental study that linked survey responses to UK government agency records on benefits and tax credits elucidates this trade-off. We compare five linkage criteria: one based on a respon-dent-su…
Killing pigs and talking tononna
This paper extends the literature on second-generation migrants by examining the construction of ethnicity (Italianitá) over time. We compare two cohorts of second-generation Italian-Australians: the post-World War II cohort and the post-1980s cohort. Ethnographic data for this research were collected with second-generation Italian-Australians in Perth over a thirty-year period. Our findings highlight important differences between these two group…
Personalized SMS, Survey Participation and Data quality – The Italian Case
A number of papers have found that personalization of salutations in e-mail communications may lead to higher response rates. Given their widespread use, Short Text Messages (SMS) may also be useful contact modes in surveys. Using experimental data from an online survey on Italian graduates, this work intends to evaluate the impact of personalized SMS salutations on response and measurement error. We find evidence that personalization has a posit…
Undercoverage Bias in Telephone Surveys in Europe
In Europe, list frame sampling methods are often adopted in computer-assisted telephone interviewing surveys. When sampling frames (i.e., white pages) are incomplete, the quality of the resulting survey data may be seriously jeopardised. In 2012, only 50% of Italians are included in the sampling frame; the remaining are excluded, as they do not own a landline telephone (32%) or their landline telephone number is unlisted (18%). This paper explore…
Evaluating the impact of a peer-education digital literacy course on older adults' digital skills and wellbeing
The digital transition poses relevant challenges and opportunities for older adults in aging European societies. To unleash the potential of the digital transition in old age and avoid the risk of exclusion, digital education for older adults seems to be a valuable solution. One of the most suitable approaches to digital education for older adults appears to be the peer-to-peer approach. However, not much literature is available on this topic. Wi…
Measuring Change in Employment Characteristics
We have demonstrated that the use of PDI results in lower levels of observed change in each of a number of characteristics of the respondent's employment. The reduction in observed change is particularly pronounced for SOC, SIC, and the number of employees at the respondent's workplace. This reduction in observed change appears to represent a reduction in measurement error as the effect of PDI is particularly pronounced amongst respondents who ha…
The Feasibility of linking household survey and administrative record data
Linkage of household survey responses with administrative data is increasingly on the agenda. Unique individual identifiers have clear benefits for making linkages but are also subject to problems of survey item non-response and measurement error. Our experimental study that linked survey responses to UK government agency records on benefits and tax credits elucidates this trade-off. We compare five linkage criteria: one based on a respon-dent-su…
Real Italians and wogs’
We explore the discursive construction of Italian identity among a bilingual sample of Italian‐born Western Australians. Focus groups were held with two groups: Italians who had migrated to Australia as children and a group who had migrated as adults. We found intra‐ and inter‐individual differences in identity construction, with much discourse devoted to demonstrating Italian authenticity and negotiating ethnic category boundaries. Shared marker…
Older carers in the UK
The aim of this paper is to disentangle the role of gender and partnership status in the caring commitments of older people (age 65 and over). Logistic and interval regression models are applied to individual records from the 2001 UK Census to estimate: (1) the impact of gender on the likelihood of being a career; (2) the impact of gender on the hours of care provided; and (3) the impact of gender on the likelihood of being a career for different…
It Is Time Computers Do Clever Things
Despite the increased interest in assessing the effects of dependent interviewing (DI) on data quality, the impact of DI on interviewer burden and interviewer-respondent interaction remains currently unexplored and undocumented. Drawing on Japec's work, this article attempts to evaluate the impact of DI on interviewer burden and describes the mechanisms by which DI affects perceived interviewer burden and ultimately data quality. We use a diverse…
When Change Matters
The authors examine how questionnaire structure affects survey interaction in the context of dependent interviewing (DI). DI is widely used in panel surveys to reduce observed spurious change in respondent circumstances. Although a growing literature generally finds beneficial measurement properties, little is known about how DI functions in interviews. The authors systematically observed survey interaction using behavior coding and analyzed an a…
Exploring the impact of male and female facial attractiveness on occupational prestige
Correlates of Obtaining Informed Consent to Data Linkage
In the United Kingdom, in order to link individual-level administrative records to survey responses, respondents need to give their consent. Using an unprecedented set of respondent, interview, and interviewer characteristics derived from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) matched with an interviewer survey, this research investigates which characteristics influence consent to adding health and social security records to the survey respons…
Propensity to consent to data linkage
When performing data linkage, survey respondents need to provide their informed consent. Since not all respondents agree to this request, the linked data-set will have fewer observations than the survey data-set alone and bias may be introduced. By focusing on the role that survey design features play in gaining respondents’ consent, this paper provides an innovative contribution to the studies in this field. Analysing experimental data collected…
Undercoverage Bias in Telephone Surveys in Europe
In Europe, list frame sampling methods are often adopted in computer-assisted telephone interviewing surveys. When sampling frames (i.e., white pages) are incomplete, the quality of the resulting survey data may be seriously jeopardised. In 2012, only 50% of Italians are included in the sampling frame; the remaining are excluded, as they do not own a landline telephone (32%) or their landline telephone number is unlisted (18%). This paper explore…
RC33 Rules for Session Organization (According to RC Statutes)
Personalized SMS, Survey Participation and Data quality – The Italian Case
A number of papers have found that personalization of salutations in e-mail communications may lead to higher response rates. Given their widespread use, Short Text Messages (SMS) may also be useful contact modes in surveys. Using experimental data from an online survey on Italian graduates, this work intends to evaluate the impact of personalized SMS salutations on response and measurement error. We find evidence that personalization has a posit…
Leaving Family to Return to Family
This article examines "roots migration" (visits and repatriations) of second-generation Italian-Australians to their ancestral homeland. Despite the current economic climate, these young adults have moved to Italy, hence their motivation for migration goes beyond economic drivers and is best explained by psychosocial factors. Drawing on ethnographic analysis, our aim is to highlight the importance of the dimension of the family, which has tended …
I Don't Do Much in the Community as an Italian, but in My Family I Do
This paper examines second-generation Italian Australian constructions of ethnicity through longitudinal ethnographic analysis. Original data for this research were collected with second-generation Italian-Australian youth in 1985–1986 and follow-up research was conducted with the same informants more than three decades later. Our findings lead us to critique Herbert Gans’s concept of symbolic ethnicity, which suggests that ethnicity among second…
Data linkage. What opportunities for survey research
Data linkage is a practice that consists in the linkage of survey data to administrative records held by different bodies, such as government departments, local authorities and universities. This practice has become increasingly popular in the survey world in the recent years. Indeed, a number of surveys have planned and are planning to link their survey data to the respondents' administrative records. For example, following on a 2009 German pilo…
Mountain Mandalas
Mountain Mandalas: Shugend? in Ky?sh?, by Allan G. Grapard. Bloomsbury. 2016. 320 pp. Hb. £90. ISBN–13: 9781474249003. Pb. £31. ISBN-13: 9781350044937. Ebook £34.54. ISBN-13: 9781474249027
Killing pigs and talking tononna
This paper extends the literature on second-generation migrants by examining the construction of ethnicity (Italianitá) over time. We compare two cohorts of second-generation Italian-Australians: the post-World War II cohort and the post-1980s cohort. Ethnographic data for this research were collected with second-generation Italian-Australians in Perth over a thirty-year period. Our findings highlight important differences between these two group…
Social networking sites use and life satisfaction. A quantitative study on older people living in Europe
The European ageing population poses unprecedented challenges to society as a whole. Social Networking Sites might be important tools to boost older people's well-being, strengthening and creating social connections in old age. Despite of its potentialities, there is relatively little knowledge on the impact of SNS use on older people's well-being, especially in Europe. Our study investigates the relationship between SNS use and life satisfaction…
The Gray Digital Divide in Social Networking Site Use in Europe
Social networking sites (SNSs) might be important tools to contrast social exclusion in old age. However, the so-called gray digital divide (GDD) may undermine the potentialities of SNSs. Despite its relevance, there is very little research, which documented the characteristics of the digital divide in SNS use among the old-age population in Europe. Drawing on the “ material access in resources and appropriation” theory developed by van Dijk, thi…
Remote recruiting and video-interviewing older people
There is an urgent need to understand the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemics on older people’s lives. However, conducting qualitative research is challenging, because of the shortage of guidelines and methodological research on how to recruit and interview participants during biological disasters, such as pandemics. This paper documents the procedures we adopted to recruit and interview 40 older people living in a rural area of Northern Italy…
Are social media users more satisfied with their life than non-users? A study on older Italians
Despite older people's increasing use of social media (SM), there is relatively little research investigating the impact of SM use on wellbeing in the ageing population. This study investigates the relationship between SM use and life satisfaction, a key dimension of wellbeing, in three age groups. We focus on the Italian case, which is particularly relevant because Italy is one of the countries both with the highest incidence of older people and…
Evaluating the impact of a peer-education digital literacy course on older adults' digital skills and wellbeing
The digital transition poses relevant challenges and opportunities for older adults in aging European societies. To unleash the potential of the digital transition in old age and avoid the risk of exclusion, digital education for older adults seems to be a valuable solution. One of the most suitable approaches to digital education for older adults appears to be the peer-to-peer approach. However, not much literature is available on this topic. Wi…
Is E-government an opportunity for all? Identifying barriers and enablers of E-government use among older adults in Europe
The European Union faces the dual challenges of an ageing population and the rapid digital transformation of public services through e-government. Despite the relevance of this topic, research on older adults' use of e-government remains limited. Grounded in Van Dijk's Resources and Appropriation Theory , this study aims to address this gap by examining the barriers and enablers of e-government adoption in later life across Europe. Specifically, …
Does internet use worsen old-age loneliness during pandemics? A gendered analysis of the SHARE data
Despite internet use potentially reducing loneliness among older adults during the Covid-19 pandemic, quantitative research in this area is limited. Our study addresses this gap by exploring how internet use affects loneliness worsening in old age across Europe from a gendered perspective. We adopt a comprehensive approach, considering individual and contextual factors. Using multi-level modelling, we analyse data from the Survey of Health, Agein…
Sociology (16 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (7 works) · Survey data collection (7 works) · Survey Methodology and Nonresponse (7 works) · Demography (6 works)