Business confidence

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

Extra-Eu foreign trade

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in January 2012. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in January […]

Trips and holidays in Italy and abroad

Istat presents provisional estimates of the main aggregates of tourism demand in Italy in 2012, based on the survey ‘Trips and holidays’ which has been […]

Consumer prices

In January 2013, the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) increased by 0.2% compared with the previous month and by 2.2% with […]

Consumer confidence

In February, the confidence climate index increased from 84.7 to 86.0. The increase was notably explained by personal, future and current climate that raised from […]

Retail trade

The retail trade index measures the monthly evolution of the turnover at current prices of enterprises with retail sale outlets. Since January 2009 the indices […]

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 December 2012 the seasonally adjusted index increased by 1.6% compared with the previous month. The percentage change of the average of the quarter October-December, […]

Preliminary estimate of GDP

In the fourth quarter of 2012 the seasonally and calendar adjusted, chained volume measure of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) decreased by 0.9 per cent with […]

Industrial production

The index measures the monthly evolution of the volume of industrial production (excluding construction). Since January 2009 the indices have been calculated with reference to […]