Consumer confidence

The confidence index lowers to 105.2 from 106.3 in February. The downswing is mainly due to a widespread pessimism on country overall economic situation (from […]

Government expenditure by function

ISTAT has made available estimates of General Government expenditure at current prices by function for 1990-2009. The classification of government expenditure by function used in […]

Crimes reported by the Police Forces

Quantification of the crimes reported by the Police Forces to the Judicial Authority is an important tool for measuring criminality. In common perception this term […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in February 2011. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in February […]

Job vacancy

A job vacancy is a paid post which can be newly created, unoccupied or about to become vacant, for which the employer is taking active […]

Intheworld 1/2011

After more than 15 years of technical assistance and cooperation in the statistical field, the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat) is now facing a […]

Italian multinational enterprises

In 2008, there were about 21 thousands Italian affiliates abroad operating in more than 150 foreign countries. These firms employ 1,5 millions of persons employed, […]

Foreign trade

Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2005=100) referring to January 2011. The results of […]

Industrial turnover and orders

In January 2011 the seasonally adjusted turnover index increased by 1.0% with respect to the previous month (+1.0% in domestic market and +0.9% in non-domestic […]

Consumer price indices

The Consumer Price Index measures the change in prices over time of a set of goods and services (CPI basket) representative of Italian household consumption. […]