Consumer prices: provisional data

In December 2013, according to provisional estimates, the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) increased by 0.2% compared with the previous month […]

Business confidence

In December 2013 the composite business confidence climate index (IESI, Istat Economic Sentiment Indicator), obtained by summarizing the confidence climates of manufacturing, construction, market services […]

Industrial producer prices

The industrial producer price index measures the evolution of output prices for goods manufactured in Italy and sold on the domestic and non-domestic markets. Since […]

Consumer confidence

In December the confidence climate index decreased from 98.2 to 96.2. The decrease was explained by personal and current components that decreased from 101.1 to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 November 2013. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in November […]

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 […]

Production in construction

In October 2013 the seasonally adjusted index decreased by 2.9% compared with the previous month. By converse, with respect to the previous quarter, the average […]