Relative poverty and social exclusion indicators analysis: The estimation of the relative poverty, disseminated by Istat, is based on a poverty line (International standard of poverty Line-ISPL) defining as poor a household of two components with a consumption expenditure level lower or equal to the mean per-capita consumption expenditure (for different size households an equivalence scale is used to take into account different needs and the economies/diseconomies of scale that can be achieved in bigger/smaller households). Therefore, the poverty line set the consumption expenditure level which represents the threshold discriminating between poor and non poor households. To synthesise the information on different poverty aspects (spread, gravity, permanence) two indices are calculated. The first is the proportion of poors (incidence), that is the ratio between the number of households (individuals) in poverty condition and the number of resident households (individuals). The second is the poverty mean gap (intensity), measuring ¿how poors are the poors¿, that is, in percentage terms, the difference between the mean equivalent consumption expenditures of poor households and the poverty line