Citizens and the ICTs

Every year the survey on “Aspects of daily life” provides data on households’ behaviour and relevant aspects of their daily life. The information presented today […]

Foreign trade

Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2010=100) referring to October 2014. In October 2014 […]

Energy consumptions of households

Almost all the households live in dwellings with space and water heating, while systems for cooling are less common (only 3 out of 10 households). […]

Pensions and pensioners

In 2013 total pension expenditure reached 272,746 million euro, registering an increase by 0.7% compared to 2012. Its incidence rate on Gdp grew by 0.22 […]

Research and development in Italy

In 2012, in current price terms, Italy’s gross domestic expenditure on Research and Development (GERD) was 20.5 billion euro. It increased by 3.5% compared to […]

Turnover in services

The Services Turnover Index measures the quarterly change recorded in sales at current prices by enterprises belonging to the domain of services. Starting from the […]

Industrial 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 […]

Business confidence

In November 2014 the composite business confidence climate index (IESI, Istat Economic Sentiment Indicator) decreased to 87.7 from 89.1 in October. The confidence index in […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

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

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 […]