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 […]

Consumer confidence

In April the confidence climate index increased from 85.3 to 86.3. The increase was notably explained by economic and current climate that increased from 69.2 […]

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 […]

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 February 2013 the seasonally adjusted index decreased by 4.2% compared with the previous month. The percentage change of the average of the quarter December-February, […]

Use and abuse of alcohol in Italy

In 2012 the percentage of population aged 14 and over who consumed at least one alcoholic drink during the year was 66.6%. This rate is […]

Real estate sales and loans

In the third quarter of 2012, nationwide real estate unit sales agreements totalled 134,984, down by 23.7% over the same period for the previous year. […]

Foreign trade

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

Consumer prices

In March 2013, Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) increased by 0.2% compared with the previous month and by 1.6% with respect to […]