Confidence of trade and service enterprises

The seasonally adjusted market services confidence indicator increased to 82.4 in March (from 79.2 in February 2012). The index improved in Business services and other […]

Non-Eu citizens holding a residence permit

The non-EU foreigners holding a residence permit in Italy on 1 January 2011 are over 3 million 500 thousand. From 2008 to 2011 there was […]

Consumer confidence

The confidence index increases in March from 94.4 to 96.8. The result is mainly due to an improvement of personal and current climate. The personal […]

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 […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

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

Hours worked

Hours worked in firms with at least 10 employees in industry and services (with the exception of social and personal ones) are calculated as per […]

Notarial activity

Istat has released the 2010 findings of the survey on notarial activities conducted by all notaries on Italian territory (approximately 5,000) since 1997. The survey […]

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 […]

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 2012. The results of […]

Production in construction

In January 2012 the seasonally adjusted index decreased by 7.8% compared with the previous month. The percentage change of the average of the quarter November-January, […]