Business confidence

In April 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 April the confidence climate index increased from 85.3 to 86.3. The increase was notably explained by economic and current climate that increased from 69.2 […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

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

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 February 2013 the seasonally adjusted index decreased by 4.2% compared with the previous month. The percentage change of the average of the quarter December-February, […]

Foreign trade

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

Consumer prices

In March 2013, Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) increased by 0.2% compared with the previous month and by 1.6% with respect to […]

Industrial production

The index measures the monthly evolution of the volume of industrial production (excluding construction). With effect from January 2013 the indices are calculated with reference […]

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 […]