Business confidence

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

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 October the confidence climate index decreased from 100.8 to 97.3. All the components worsened. In particular, referring to the economic and personal components, the […]

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 […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in September 2013. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in September […]

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 […]

Production in construction

In August 2013 the seasonally adjusted index increased by 3.4% compared with the previous month. The percentage change of the average of the quarter June-August, […]

Foreign trade

Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2010=100) referring to August 2013. The results of […]

Monthly demographic balance

Istat makes available online – at http://demo.istat.it – data on population change and resident population by sex in Italian municipalities, for January-April 2013.

Consumer prices

In September 2013, the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) decreased by 0.3% compared with the previous month and rose by 0.9% […]