Foreign trade

Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2010=100) referring to March 2013. The results of […]

Books production and reading

After the 2010 recovery, 2011 marks another standstill for Italian book production: new titles decrease by 9.4% and copies by 5.9%. Publishers consider as main […]

Preliminary estimate of GDP

In the first quarter of 2013 the seasonally and calendar adjusted, chained volume measure of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) decreased by 0.5 per cent with […]

Consumer prices

In April 2013, the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) held steady compared with the previous month and increased by 1.1% with respect […]

Italy’s Economic Outlook

Global economic growth has improved since mid-2012, but advanced economies are forecast to recover gradually only in the second half of 2013. As a result, […]

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 […]

Business confidence

In April 2013 the composite business confidence climate index (IESI, Istat Economic Sentiment Indicator), obtained by summarizing the confidence climates of manufacturing, construction, market services […]

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 […]

Employment and unemployment

Istat has produced back-recalculated time series, both quarterly and annual from 1977 up today, for the main labour market indicators, thus overcoming the break due […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in March 2013. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in March […]