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 January 2009 indices are calculated with reference to the base year 2005 using the new Ateco 2007 classification (Italian edition of NACE Rev. 2).
In October 2010 the total producer price index decreased by 0.1% with respect to the previous month; the index of producer prices fell by 0.2% on domestic market and rose by 0.1% on non domestic market. The percentage change of the average of the last three months compared to the previous three months was +0.3 (+0.4 on domestic market and +0.3 on non domestic one).
The index rose by 3.8% compared with October 2009 (+4.0% on domestic market and +3.5% on non-domestic market).
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