The aim of this paper is to present - after a review of the theoretical literature and the main international/national
measurement experiences - the latest initiatives in measuring the Social capital (SC) in which the Italian National Statistical
Institute (Istat) is involved. The first concerns the joint Istat - the Bank of Italy’s attempt to produce a multidimensional
measure, integrating data from different surveys. These main results have allowed us to overcome the traditional North-South
representation of the Italian regions for the SC endowment. The second initiative refers to the National Council for Economics
and Labour (NCEL) – Istat’s Project on Fair and Sustainable Well-being and to the choice of indicators that monitor the wellbeing
of the Italians regarding the Social relations domain. The last project is the Istat - Italian CSR Manager Network (CMN)
initiative to create a bridge between what the firms report in their social reports and the social/environmental official
indicators of the country. A standardization of social reports in fact could be beneficial to the development of new measures
and studies on SC in the perspective of the sustainable well-being.