Extra-Eu foreign trade

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

Poverty in Italy

Istat disseminates the relative and absolute poverty estimations for the households residing in Italy, based on 2010 Households Budget Survey data. Being sample estimations, they […]

Foreign trade

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

Intheworld 2/2011

The estimation of the Informal Sector (IS) in official statistics is one of the most relevant issues to be tackled to guarantee the exhaustiveness of the National Account […]

Consumer prices

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. […]

Industrial production

The index measures the monthly evolution of the volume of industrial production (excluding construction). Since January 2009 the indices have been calculated with reference to […]

Households income and corporate profits

In the first quarter of 2011 the gross household saving rate (defined as gross saving divided by gross disposable income, with the latter being adjusted […]

Separations and divorces in Italy

In 2009 there were 85,945 separations and 54,456 divorces, an increase of 2.1 and 0.2% respectively on the previous year. These increases, especially in the […]

Euro-zone economic outlook

After a strong rebound in Q1 (0.8%), GDP growth in the Euro-zone is expected to decelerate markedly in Q2 (0.3%) and then grow at a […]

Household consumptions

In 2010 the average monthly household consumption expenditure, in current values, was 2,453 Euros, with a +0.5% change in comparison with 2009. Taking into account […]