Employment and unemployment (quarterly)

Istat estimates that 22,9 million persons were employed in the 3rd quarter 2012, unchanged compared with the 3rd quarter 2011. The employment rate was stable […]

Employment and unemployment (monthly)

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, […]

Consumer prices (provisional)

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. […]

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 […]

Marriages in Italy

In 2011, 204,830 marriages took place in Italy (3.4 per 1,000 inhabitants), 12,870 fewer than in 2010. Marriage has been decreasing since 1972, but the […]

Business confidence

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

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 […]

Italian multinational enterprises

Data refer to 2010 for the business structure and economic activities carried out abroad by Italian-controlled enterprises, and to 2011-2012 for new investments abroad with […]

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 November, the confidence climate index decreased from 86.2 to 84.8. The decrease was notably explained by economic and future climate, that fell from 71.5 […]