Business confidence

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

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 […]

Consumer confidence

In July the confidence climate index increased from 95.8 to 97.3. The growth is diffused in all components: economic, personal, current and future (the index […]

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 […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

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

Urban environment quality

In 2012, the motorisation rate was about 609 cars per thousand inhabitants (-0.7% over the previous year); the number of motorcycles was almost stable at […]

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 May 2013 the seasonally adjusted index decreased by 2.0% compared with the previous month. The percentage change of the average of the quarter March-May, […]

Poverty in Italy

Istat disseminates the relative and absolute poverty estimations for the households residing in Italy, based on 2012 Households Budget Survey data. Being sample estimations, they […]

Foreign Trade

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