Consumer and business confidence

With regard to the consumer survey, the confidence climate index decreased in February 2016 from 118.6 to 114.5. All components decreased: economic, personal, current and […]

Retail trade

The retail trade index measures the monthly evolution of the turnover at current prices of enterprises with retail sale outlets. With effect from January 2013 […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in January 2016. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in January […]

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 […]

Consumer prices

Starting from the data of January 2016, the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC), the Italian consumer price index for blue and […]

Production in construction

In December 2015 the seasonally adjusted index compared with the previous month decreased by 0.6%. The percentage change of the average of the quarter October-December […]

Construction costs

The construction costs index for residential buildings approximates the monthly evolution of costs of the residential construction sector. Since January 2013 the indices are calculated […]

Foreign trade

Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2010=100) referring to December 2015. The results of […]

Industrial import prices

The import price index measures the evolution of prices for industrial products bought by industrial and commercial enterprises in Italy, both in the euro zone […]

Preliminary estimate of GDP

In the fourth quarter of 2015 the seasonally and calendar adjusted, chained volume measure of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 0.1 per cent compared […]