Business confidence

In September 2014 the composite business confidence climate index (IESI, Istat Economic Sentiment Indicator) decreased to 86.6 from 88.1 in August. The confidence index in […]

Labour indicators in enterprises

In the second quarter of 2014 seasonally adjusted volumes of hours worked for the total of industry and services decreased by 0.4% with respect to […]

Turnover in services

The Services Turnover Index measures the quarterly change recorded in sales at current prices by enterprises belonging to the domain of services. Starting from the […]

Large firms labour indicators

Labour indicators for large firms (enterprises with 500 employees and more) are calculated with reference to the base year 2010 using the Ateco 2007 classification […]

Business confidence

In August 2014 the composite business confidence climate index (IESI, Istat Economic Sentiment Indicator) decreased to 88.2 from 90.8 in July. The confidence index in […]

Business demography

In 2012 there were about 275,000 business births, approximately 10,700 companies in more than the previous year. The birth rate is 7.0%, +0.3 percentage points […]

Large firms labour indicators

Labour indicators for large firms (enterprises with 500 employees and more) are calculated with reference to the base year 2010 using the Ateco 2007 classification […]

Business confidence

In July 2014 the composite business confidence climate index (IESI, Istat Economic Sentiment Indicator), obtained by summarizing the confidence climates of manufacturing, construction, market services […]

Annual data on industial production

For the first time  Istat makes available online on I.Stat (in the “Industry and Construction Production Production volume”), the data on annual industrial production for […]

Business confidence

In June 2014 the composite business confidence climate index (IESI, Istat Economic Sentiment Indicator), obtained by summarizing the confidence climates of manufacturing, construction, market services […]