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 […]

Consumer prices

In January 2014, the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) rose by 0.2% compared with the previous month and by 0.7% with […]

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 […]

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 2013. The results of […]

Production in construction

In December 2013 the seasonally adjusted index increased by 1.3% compared with the previous month. The percentage change for the October-December quarter was 4.4%, with […]