The determinants of leaving the parental home in Italy: 2012-18.

Using the longitudinal structure of the Istat Italian Labor Force Survey, we follow for 15 months the 77.700 young people aged 19-34 who, at the first interview during 2012-18, lived in their parental home, dividing them into four groups (Italian men, Italian women, foreign men, foreign women). In the fourth interview, 15 months after the first one, 16% of them are no longer resident with their parents. The main objective of this work is to model the probabilities of leaving the parental home with the characteristics of young people at the first interview, using logistic regression. The young Italians most likely to leave their parental home are those employed full-time, regardless of gender and type of contract (fixed-term or openended). Students remain more frequently with parents irrespective of gender and citizenship. Only for Italians, leaving home is faster if the family of origin is large and the parents are more educated.