Employment and unemployment (quarterly)

Istat estimates that 22,4 million persons were employed in the 4th quarter 2013, down 1,7% (-397 thousands) from 4th quarter 2012. The employment rate decreased […]

Employment and unemployment (year)

Istat estimates that 22,4 million persons were employed in the 2013, down 2,1% (-478 thousands) from 2012. The employment rate decreased to 55.6%. Unemployment rise […]

Consumer prices (provisional)

In February 2014, according to provisional estimates, the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) decreased by 0.1% compared with the previous month […]

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 […]

Business confidence

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

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 […]

Industrial import prices

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

Consumer confidence

In February the confidence climate index decreased from 98.0 to 97.5. The decrease is partially explained by personal and current components that declined from 100.3 […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in January 2014. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in January […]