This is fascinating, thank you. I've been told a lot of the issues surrounding the boomerang generation in Italy has to do with policies that are defensive of o

This is fascinating, thank you. I've been told a lot of the issues surrounding the boomerang generation in Italy has to do with policies that are defensive of older employees, thus making it more difficult for young adults to find jobs. I was interested in correlating these numbers with birth rates, as I knew Italy had among Europe's lowest and France had among the highest. But the results are disappointing (or maybe not, I'm not a statistician). FWIW, the amended table is below, using numbers from the CIA World Factbook. Share of those at age 25-29 still living in parent's home, %; birth rate per thousand Men Women Birth Rate France 22.5 10.3 12.57 Germany 28.8 12.7 8.18 Great Britain 20.8 10.8 10.65 (for the UK) Spain 64.8 47.6 9.72 Greece 62.6 32.1 9.45 Italy 66.0 44.1 8.18