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Pensions in the Italian Parliament: how often it was debated

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

The theme of pensions appears in 73,593 interventions delivered in the Italian Chamber of Deputies between 1948 and 2022. The year it was discussed most is 1969, with 2,378 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: 1073 interventions1949: 1112 interventions1950: 990 interventions1951: 1279 interventions1952: 1052 interventions1953: 1197 interventions1954: 1390 interventions1955: 1220 interventions1956: 1146 interventions1957: 1360 interventions1958: 1230 interventions1959: 1384 interventions1960: 1079 interventions1961: 1530 interventions1962: 1312 interventions1963: 1119 interventions1964: 1597 interventions1965: 1676 interventions1966: 1924 interventions1967: 2134 interventions1968: 1670 interventions1969: 2378 interventions1970: 1521 interventions1971: 1686 interventions1972: 1346 interventions1973: 1459 interventions1974: 1497 interventions1975: 1146 interventions1976: 805 interventions1977: 1125 interventions1978: 1143 interventions1979: 1080 interventions1980: 1324 interventions1981: 1598 interventions1982: 2251 interventions1983: 1670 interventions1984: 1560 interventions1985: 1152 interventions1986: 1462 interventions1987: 1383 interventions1988: 1443 interventions1989: 1459 interventions1990: 1273 interventions1991: 635 interventions1992: 746 interventions1993: 526 interventions1994: 644 interventions1995: 909 interventions1996: 338 interventions1997: 692 interventions1998: 520 interventions1999: 589 interventions2000: 604 interventions2001: 402 interventions2002: 332 interventions2003: 476 interventions2004: 457 interventions2005: 272 interventions2006: 336 interventions2007: 684 interventions2008: 355 interventions2009: 285 interventions2010: 262 interventions2011: 408 interventions2012: 491 interventions2013: 313 interventions2014: 474 interventions2015: 319 interventions2016: 233 interventions2017: 114 interventions2018: 300 interventions2019: 295 interventions2020: 135 interventions2021: 111 interventions2022: 101 interventions19501960197019801990200020102020
Interventions per year mentioning pensions in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, 1948-2022.

Who spoke about it most

Member of ParliamentGroup Interventions
GIOVANNI ROBERTIMovimento Sociale Italiano263
MARIO MARINO GUADALUPIFronte Democratico Popolare234
MARIO BERLINGUERPartito Socialista Italiano224
CARLO FATUZZOForza Italia – Il Popolo della Libertà213
RAFFAELE VALENSISEMovimento Sociale Italiano188
ANTONINO CUTTITTAPartito Nazionale Monarchico179
CLEMENTE MAGLIETTAFronte Democratico Popolare169
MARIO POCHETTIPartito Comunista Italiano161
GIANNI DE MICHELISPartito Socialista Italiano149
ARNALDO FABRIANIDemocrazia Cristiana144

The most active parliamentary groups on this issue

Parliamentary groupInterventions
Democrazia Cristiana10,458
Partito Comunista Italiano5,931
Partito Socialista Italiano3,498
Movimento Sociale Italiano2,425
L'Ulivo1,839
Fronte Democratico Popolare1,370
Forza Italia – Il Popolo della Libertà1,033
Partito Democratico935
Lega Nord888
Partito Liberale Italiano771

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 pensioni OR pensionati OR previdenza OR "età pensionabile". 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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