Consumer Confidence

The confidence index rises in May to 106.5 from 103.7. The upswing is mainly due to a widespread optimism, particularly focused on country overall economic […]

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 […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non- U countries in April 2011. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in […]

Book-reading habits in Italy

In 2010, 46.8% of the population aged 6 and over said they had read at least one book (over 26,400,000 people) in their leisure time […]

Construction cost of residential building

The construction costs index for residential building approximates the quarterly evolution of costs of the residential construction sector. Since the first quarter 2009 the indices […]

Contractual wages and salaries

The index of wages according to collective labour agreements measures the evolution of wages and salaries (per employee or per hour) determined by contractual provisions […]

Large firms labour indicators

Labour indicators for large firms (enterprises with 500 employees and more) are calculated with reference to the base year 2005 using the Ateco 2007 classification […]

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 […]

Consumer price (provisional indices)

The Consumer Price Index measures the change in prices over time of a set of goods and services (CPI basket) representative of Italian household consumption. […]

Employment and unemployment (provisional)

In order to improve the timeliness of statistical information on the Italian labour market and in accordance with the agreements made within the European Union, […]