Labour Force 2021: what’s new in the survey

The year 2021 opens with important news for the Labour Force Survey, which has provided official estimates of employed and unemployed and other key information […]

What changes in the new survey

The new survey adopts the updates introduced by the European Regulation, which provides new criteria for identifying the household and the employed person. To comply […]

General Info

The labour force survey is a sample survey conducted by interviewing households.  Its main goal is to estimate the aggregates of labour supply: employed and […]

Questionnaire

The questionnaire is the survey tool used to collect information on all the people in the sample. The questions in the questionnaire are closely studied […]

For respondents

For Istat it is important that households know properly the surveys that the Institute carries out and their purpose. This is because the data collected […]

Dissemination Labour Force Survey

Following the new European legislation (EU Regulation 2019/1700), which introduces methodological and organizational innovations in the Labour Force Survey, dissemination activities will undergo some changes. […]

Labour force: Eurostat Documentation

New methodology and information by country EU Labour Force Survey – new methodology from 2021 onwards Framework regulation Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and […]

Perpetrators and victims of homicide

Homicides on the decline. Family related homicides are growing: victims mostly women, perpetrators men. In 2019, there were 315 homicides (345 in 2018): 204 men […]

Information on the health emergency and the recovery

During the health emergency, Istat set out a series of actions to ensure the continuity and quality of statistical production even in a crisis situation. […]

Retail trade

In January 2021 estimates for seasonally adjusted index of retail trade fell by 3.0% in value terms in the month on month series, likewise volume […]