Business confidence

In November the composite business confidence climate index (IESI, Istat Economic Sentiment Indicator), obtained by summarizing the confidence climates of manufacturing, construction, market services and […]

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 […]

Italian multinational enterprises

Data refer to 2010 for the business structure and economic activities carried out abroad by Italian-controlled enterprises, and to 2011-2012 for new investments abroad with […]

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 […]

Consumer confidence

In November, the confidence climate index decreased from 86.2 to 84.8. The decrease was notably explained by economic and future climate, that fell from 71.5 […]

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 […]

Agricultural products prices

The agricultural price indices provide information on trends in purchase prices of the means of production  and producer prices of agricultural products. Since January 2009 […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

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

Marriages in Italy

230,613 marriages were celebrated in Italy in 2009 and just over 217,000 in 2010 (provisional data), equalling 3.6 marriages for every 1,000 inhabitants. In just […]

Industrial turnover and orders

The industrial turnover index measures the monthly evolution of sales by industrial enterprises at current prices. The new orders index is an indicator of the […]