Collaborative research project
Project leader: SLORI. Questionnaire respondent: SWG
Project leader: Devan Jagodic Collaborator: Norina Bogatec
Project implementation period: 2021- 2022
In November 2021, SLORI commissioned SWG, a demoscopic survey company from Trieste, to carry out an extensive opinion survey among the population of the 32 municipalities of the former provinces of Trieste, Gorizia and Udine included in the area of implementation of the provisions of Law 38/2001 on the protection of the Slovene linguistic minority in Italy. The aim of the survey is to collect new data on the ethnolinguistic and socio-economic characteristics of the population residing in the area where the Slovenes settled in FVG, and in particular to define the image of its “Slovene” part and to find out how it is interwoven with the wider socio-cultural fabric of the area in question, or for which characteristics it differs from it. The research aims to find out who the Slovenes in Italy are today, what is the numerical consistency of the Slovene community, what are the socio-economic characteristics of this group and what are, today, the basic criteria and methods of identification with the Slovene nationality, culture and language.
The research team developed a targeted questionnaire, to which 2,500 respondents answered by telephone and online. The data was collected in November and December 2021 and statistically processed in 2022. In 2023, the author began publishing the results of the survey in the weekly column ‘Zrcalo skupnosti’, published in Primorski dnevnik. The collected contributions will then be edited and published in a scientific monograph.