Business confidence

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

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 […]

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 […]

Consumer confidence

The confidence climate index increased in October from 86.2 to 86.4. The increase was notably explained by economic climate that raised from 71.1 to 71.7. […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

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

Manufacturing enterprises on foreign markets

During the first half of 2012, a manufacturing firm on two (49.8%) increased sales of its products on foreign markets compared to the same period of […]

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 2012 the seasonally adjusted index increased by 5.3% compared with the previous month. The percentage change of the average of the quarter June-August, […]

Foreign trade

Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2005=100) referring to August 2012. The results of […]

Consumer prices

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. […]