Costs index for road construction

The costs index for road construction approximates the monthly evolution of costs of two types of roads: with and without tunnel section. Since January 2013 […]

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 […]

Political participation in Italy

In 2013, about 5 million 700 thousand people (10.8% of the population aged 14 and over) expressed their political commitment participating in mass-meetings (6.7% of […]

Review of official statistics 1-2/2014

LAST ISSUE Full issue no. 1-2/2014 TOPICS Preface By Tommaso Di Fonzo, Alessandro Pallara A methodological approach based on indirect sampling to survey the homeless […]

Business confidence

In October 2014 the composite business confidence climate index (IESI, Istat Economic Sentiment Indicator) increased to 89.3 from 86.9 in September. The confidence index in […]

Italian language, dialects and other languages

Over the past 18 years, from 1995 to 2012, the share of people using the Italian language as their main language or in combination with […]

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 […]

Contractual wages and salaries

The index of wages according to collective labour agreements measures the evolution of contractual wages  (per employee or per hour) set by collective agreements; the […]

Consumer confidence

In October the confidence climate index decreased slightly from 101.9 to 101.4. All the components decreased: economic from 105.4 to 101.3, personal from 101.5 to […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in September 2014. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in September […]