Large firms labour indicators

Labour indicators for large firms (enterprises with 500 employees and more) are calculated with reference to the base year 2010 using the Ateco 2007 classification […]

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

In April 2013 the composite business confidence climate index (IESI, Istat Economic Sentiment Indicator), obtained by summarizing the confidence climates of manufacturing, construction, market services […]

Retail trade

The retail trade index measures the monthly evolution of the turnover at current prices of enterprises with retail sale outlets. With effect from January 2013 […]

Employment and unemployment

Istat has produced back-recalculated time series, both quarterly and annual from 1977 up today, for the main labour market indicators, thus overcoming the break due […]

Consumer confidence

In April the confidence climate index increased from 85.3 to 86.3. The increase was notably explained by economic and current climate that increased from 69.2 […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in March 2013. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in March […]

Intheworld 6/2013

Quality is an extremely widetopic ranging from the monitoring of a single error source, to the planning and implementation of control activity for a statistical […]

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 2013 the seasonally adjusted index decreased by 4.2% compared with the previous month. The percentage change of the average of the quarter December-February, […]