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International economic activity is strengthening accompanied by a recovery in oil prices. In Italy the manufacturing sector is reinforcing the economic recovery showing positive trends […]

Industrial and Services producer prices

The industrial producer price index measures the evolution of output prices for goods manufactured in Italy and sold on the domestic and non-domestic markets. Since […]

Books production and reading

The Italian publishing sector is very peculiar: over half of the active operators (54.8%) are “small” publishers, who publish no more than 10 titles per […]

Italian language, dialects and other languages

In 2015, 45.9% of people aged six years and over (about 26 million and 300 thousand individuals) used to speak more frequently in Italian at […]

Municipalities' expenditure for social services

The statistical measurement of the resources used for social services by the Municipalities, individually or in an associated form, confirms, also in 2015, the tendency […]

Foreign trade with non-EU countries

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in November 2017. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in November […]

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 […]

Consumer and business confidence

With regard to the consumer survey, the confidence climate increased in December 2017 from 114.4 to 116.6. All components increased: economic from 139.4 to 143.0, […]

Road accidents - preliminary estimates

During the first semester of 2017, the preliminary estimates data showed a reduction of both road accidents resulting in death or injury and injured persons, […]

Citizens, enterprises and ICT

The integrated information framework on the use of ICT technologies by citizens and enterprises shows an increasingly widespread and advanced use of these technologies in […]