Quarterly turnover in services

Starting from 4 quarter 2011, Istat releases the quarterly indices of turnover for the sectors Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles, […]

Production in construction

In January 2011 the seasonally adjusted index decreased by 1.0% compared with the previous month. The percentage change of the average of the quarter November-January […]

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 index lowers to 105.2 from 106.3 in February. The downswing is mainly due to a widespread pessimism on country overall economic situation (from […]

Government expenditure by function

ISTAT has made available estimates of General Government expenditure at current prices by function for 1990-2009. The classification of government expenditure by function used in […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in February 2011. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in February […]

Job vacancy

A job vacancy is a paid post which can be newly created, unoccupied or about to become vacant, for which the employer is taking active […]

Italian multinational enterprises

In 2008, there were about 21 thousands Italian affiliates abroad operating in more than 150 foreign countries. These firms employ 1,5 millions of persons employed, […]

Industrial turnover and orders

In January 2011 the seasonally adjusted turnover index increased by 1.0% with respect to the previous month (+1.0% in domestic market and +0.9% in non-domestic […]

Foreign trade

Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2005=100) referring to January 2011. The results of […]