This success was based on three key factors: first, political ownership, socioeconomic awareness and social dialogue. Policymakers were committed to the programme’s goals and showed deep knowledge of the virtuous response mechanisms to be activated in the critical sectors. On the other hand, the public understood the urgency and even-handedness of the programme.
By the 1950s, the Bank of Italy had already worked with Doxa, a private company, on conducting surveys on household finances. In the early sixties, the Bank of Italy conducted several pilot surveys on the income, consumption and savings of Italian households and in 1966 the first official survey was conducted.