Abstract
Abstract This paper addresses the issue of measuring tolerance, viewed as a multifaceted phenomenon involving several different social domains. We develop a multidimensional index for Likert-scale data, characterized by the following features: (i) it reflects the individual’s intensity of tolerant attitudes towards each social domain; (ii) the index can be broken down by dimension in order to determine the contribution of each dimension to overall tolerance; (iii) the index combines the different dimensions of tolerance using a weighted scheme that reflects the importance of each dimension in determining the overall level of tolerance. To show how this new measure of tolerance works in practice, we carry out a case study using an Italian recent survey asking the opinion of university students about different subjects, such as interreligious dialog, women/religion relationship, religion/death relationship, homosexuality, and multicultural society.
Highlights
In recent years, the topic of tolerance has been receiving increased interest in the economic literature
This paper addresses the issue of measuring tolerance, viewed as a multifaceted phenomenon involving several different social domains
We develop a multidimensional index for Likert-scale data, characterized by the following features: (i) it reflects the individual’s intensity of tolerant attitudes towards each social domain; (ii) the index can be broken down by dimension in order to determine the contribution of each dimension to overall tolerance; (iii) the index combines the different dimensions of tolerance using a weighted scheme that reflects the importance of each dimension in determining the overall level of tolerance
Summary
The topic of tolerance has been receiving increased interest in the economic literature. We aim at contributing to this flourishing research area by adopting a wider perspective and looking at tolerance as a concept involving several different social domains, so that attitudes towards homosexuals and foreign-born people are only a partial aspect of this phenomenon.. The index can be broken down by dimension This allows to determine the contribution of each dimension to overall tolerance. The index combines the different dimensions of tolerance using a weighted scheme that reflects the importance of each dimension in determining the overall level of tolerance To show how this measure of tolerance works in practice, we carry out a case study using an Italian survey asking the opinion of university students about different subjects, such as interreligious dialog, women/religion relationship, religion/death relationship, multicultural society, and homosexuality.. The last section concludes the paper with suggestions for further developments
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