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"# Blessed be the Fruit - Project Documentation\n",
"Blessed be the Fruit is a project developed by Maddalena Ghiotto, Chloe PapaDidpoulou, and Orsola Maria Borrini for the final exam of the course \"Open Access and Digital Ethics\" held by professor Monica Palmirani within the Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge Master Degree (University of Bologna), during the A.Y. 2022/2023."
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"## Introduction\n",
"Many existing studies, mainly focused on the US, have been relating teen pregnancy to a variety of socioeconomic factors that may influence it. Amongst them, low income and poverty, education levels, race or ethnicity and, finally, religion.
In this project we wanted to move the focus away from the US, one of the industrialized countries in which teen pregnancy and birth rates are the highest, to Italy, and study whether there could be a relation between education, religion observance and pregnancy rates in the Mediterranean country.\n",
"\n",
"As the headquarters of the Catholic Church reside in Vatican City, enclaved in Rome, the relationship between Italians and this Church surely is particularly strong. However, according to Eurostat’s Eurobarometer survey in 2018, 85.6% of Italy’s population is Christian, while 2.6% is a follower of other religions and 11.7% are non-religious. As we wanted to analyse any possible influence on pregnancy rates in young women with no distinction between the various faiths, we have decided to discard the special relation with the Catholic Church and have considered general religious observance.\n",
"\n",
"Nevertheless, correlation is not causation, and there are surely many other factors contributing to pregnancy rates in young women: therefore, we have also included the education level, considering the early leavers from higher education (aged 18 to 24).\n"
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"## Scenario\n",
"\n",
"[Istat](https://www.istat.it/) is the Italian National Institute of Statistics, the main producer of official statistics in the service of citizens and policy-makers. It is structured in several different databases that allow for browsing and downloading the data produced by the institute for free.
\n",
"Specifically, we have used both general and specific databases:\n",
"
dcat:DatasetSeries
with related properties, again, we followed AGID's metadata model instruction about how to handle relationships between datasets.dct:type
to the value <http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/metadata-codelist/ResourceType/series> .dct:hasPart
property.dct:isPartOf
\n",
"\n",
"Find the downloadable RDF assertions on Blessed be the fruit"
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"## Sustainability of the update\n",
"\n",
"The source datasets developed for \"Blessed be the fruit\" are provided exclusively by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat), which maintains them in its various databases. Given the current situation of I.Stat, which content will be soon moved to IstatData, the URIs provided in this project for the source datasets D3, D5, D6, and D7 will eventually become obsolete .\n",
"\n",
"However, \"Blessed be the fruit\" is the final project developed for the \"Open Access and Digital Ethics\" course (a.a. 2022/2023) within the Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge Masters Degree (University of Bologna), and, as such is not actively maintained and will not be updated in the future."
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