Consumer Confidence

The confidence index rises in May to 106.5 from 103.7. The upswing is mainly due to a widespread optimism, particularly focused on country overall economic […]

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 […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

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

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 […]

Book-reading habits in Italy

In 2010, 46.8% of the population aged 6 and over said they had read at least one book (over 26,400,000 people) in their leisure time […]

Construction cost of residential building

The construction costs index for residential building approximates the quarterly evolution of costs of the residential construction sector. Since the first quarter 2009 the indices […]

Consumer price indices

The Consumer Price Index for the whole nation (NIC) is based on the entire present population’s consumption. The Harmonised index of Consumer Prices (HICP), calculated […]

Foreign trade

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

Preliminary estimate of GDP

In the first quarter of 2011 the seasonally and calendar adjusted, chained volume measure of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 0.1 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 […]