Extra-Eu foreign trade

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in July 2012. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in July […]

Large firms labour indicators

Labour indicators for large firms (enterprises with 500 employees and more) are calculated with reference to the base year 2005 using the Ateco 2007 classification […]

Employment and unemployment (quarterly)

Istat estimates that 23 million persons were employed in the 2nd quarter 2012, down by 0.2% (-48 thousands) from the 2nd quarter 2011. The employment […]

Employment and unemployment (monthly)

In order to improve the timeliness of statistical information on the Italian labour market and in accordance with the agreements made within the European Union, […]

Consumer prices (provisional)

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 producer prices

The industrial producer price index measures the evolution of output prices for goods manufactured in Italy and sold on the domestic and non-domestic markets. Since […]

Contractual wages and salaries

The index of wages according to collective labour agreements measures the evolution of wages and salaries (per employee or per hour) determined by contractual provisions […]

Business confidence

Starting from June 2012, Istat released a new composite business confidence climate index (IESI, Istat Economic Sentiment Indicator). The composite index, obtained by summarizing the […]

Retail trade

The retail trade index measures the monthly evolution of the turnover at current prices of enterprises with retail sale outlets. Since January 2009 the indices […]

Consumer confidence

The confidence climate index decreased in August from 86.5 to 86.0. The decrease was notably explained by personal climate and by future climate that decreased, […]