Consumer confidence

The confidence climate index fells in April from 96.3 to 89.0. The decrease was notably explained by short term expectations, whose climate decreased   from 86.3 […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

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

Review of official statistics 2-3/2011

LAST ISSUE Full issue no. 2-3/2011 TOPICS Evaluations on list undercoverage bias and possible solutions: the case of ISTAT CATI survey “Trips, holidays and daily […]

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 […]

Production in construction

In February 2012 the seasonally adjusted index decreased by 9.9% compared with the previous month. The percentage change of the average of the quarter December-February, […]

Foreign Trade

Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2005=100) referring to February 2012. The results of […]

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 […]

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. […]

From ConIstat to IStat

Starting from Monday 16 April 2012 Con.Istat, the Istat short term indicator time-series database is not active anymore. All the Con.Istat series are now available […]

Use and abuse of alcohol

In 2011 the percentage of the population aged 11 and over who had consumed at least one alcoholic drink during the year was 65%; this […]