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Labour and unemployment in the Italian Parliament: how often it was debated

Chamber of Deputies, 1948-2022 · based on 2,454,718 parliamentary interventions

The theme of labour and unemployment appears in 61,427 interventions delivered in the Italian Chamber of Deputies between 1948 and 2022. The year it was discussed most is 1984, with 1,489 interventions.

This page summarises the main figures. The full search, with the complete text of every intervention and downloadable results, is available in the corpus search engine.

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Trend over time

1948: 743 interventions1949: 853 interventions1950: 917 interventions1951: 876 interventions1952: 883 interventions1953: 653 interventions1954: 847 interventions1955: 687 interventions1956: 746 interventions1957: 896 interventions1958: 871 interventions1959: 864 interventions1960: 607 interventions1961: 663 interventions1962: 376 interventions1963: 292 interventions1964: 875 interventions1965: 1069 interventions1966: 1222 interventions1967: 939 interventions1968: 951 interventions1969: 1187 interventions1970: 821 interventions1971: 1005 interventions1972: 647 interventions1973: 876 interventions1974: 561 interventions1975: 720 interventions1976: 653 interventions1977: 1073 interventions1978: 992 interventions1979: 913 interventions1980: 1103 interventions1981: 1005 interventions1982: 1361 interventions1983: 1082 interventions1984: 1489 interventions1985: 1064 interventions1986: 1096 interventions1987: 783 interventions1988: 1231 interventions1989: 831 interventions1990: 881 interventions1991: 490 interventions1992: 569 interventions1993: 738 interventions1994: 626 interventions1995: 668 interventions1996: 643 interventions1997: 1454 interventions1998: 1298 interventions1999: 905 interventions2000: 822 interventions2001: 389 interventions2002: 768 interventions2003: 535 interventions2004: 619 interventions2005: 589 interventions2006: 470 interventions2007: 576 interventions2008: 513 interventions2009: 662 interventions2010: 750 interventions2011: 593 interventions2012: 932 interventions2013: 1059 interventions2014: 1383 interventions2015: 769 interventions2016: 621 interventions2017: 407 interventions2018: 667 interventions2019: 744 interventions2020: 667 interventions2021: 869 interventions2022: 428 interventions19501960197019801990200020102020
Interventions per year mentioning labour and unemployment in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, 1948-2022.

Who spoke about it most

Member of ParliamentGroup Interventions
RAFFAELE VALENSISEMovimento Sociale Italiano270
GIOVANNI ROBERTIMovimento Sociale Italiano174
GIUSEPPE DI VITTORIOFronte Democratico Popolare146
ALFONSO GIANNIPartito di Unità Proletaria per il comunismo137
NICOLA BONOPolo del Buon Governo128
GIORGIO AMENDOLAFronte Democratico Popolare122
CLEMENTE MAGLIETTAFronte Democratico Popolare117
RAFFAELE DELFINOMovimento Sociale Italiano116
MARIO TASSONEDemocrazia Cristiana108
MARIO MARINO GUADALUPIFronte Democratico Popolare107

The most active parliamentary groups on this issue

Parliamentary groupInterventions
Democrazia Cristiana6,522
Partito Comunista Italiano5,775
Partito Democratico2,710
L'Ulivo2,682
Movimento Sociale Italiano2,460
Partito Socialista Italiano2,402
Forza Italia – Il Popolo della Libertà2,212
Fronte Democratico Popolare1,611
Movimento 5 Stelle1,389
Lega Nord1,321

How these figures were obtained

The figures come from a full-text search over the entire corpus of verbatim reports of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1948 to 2022, queried with disoccupazione OR occupazione OR "posti di lavoro" OR licenziamenti OR precariato. Each intervention is counted once even if the theme occurs several times within it. The source of the texts is the ItaParlCorpus dataset by Joshua Cova (Harvard Dataverse), which collects 2,454,718 interventions and more than 470 million words. Texts from the earliest legislatures come from OCR scans and may contain recognition errors.

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