Italian language, dialects and other languages

Over the past 18 years, from 1995 to 2012, the share of people using the Italian language as their main language or in combination with […]

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 […]

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 […]

Consumer confidence

In October the confidence climate index decreased slightly from 101.9 to 101.4. All the components decreased: economic from 105.4 to 101.3, personal from 101.5 to […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

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

ICT in enterprises

Istat disseminates the main findings of the survey on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in enterprises with at least 10 persons employed […]

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 […]

Production in construction

In August 2014 the seasonally adjusted index increased by 6.0%, compared with the previous month. The percentage change of the quarter June-August was -1.9%, with […]

Foreign trade

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

Construction costs for residential building

The construction costs index for residential building approximates the monthly evolution of costs of the residential construction sector. Since January 2013 the indices are calculated […]