Consumer confidence

The confidence index falls in October from 94.2 to 92.9. The downswing is mainly due to a widespread pessimism particularly focused on the short term […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in September 2011. 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 […]

Foreign Trade

Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2005=100) referring to August 2011. The results of […]

Consumer prices

The Consumer Price Index measures the change in prices over time of a set of goods and services (CPI basket) representative of Italian household consumption. […]

Industrial production

The index measures the monthly evolution of the volume of industrial production (excluding construction). Since January 2009 the indices have been calculated with reference to […]

Euro-zone economic outlook

After a sharp slowdown in Q2, real GDP growth in the euro area is expected to remain subdued until Q1 2012. The loss in GDP […]

Employment and unemployment

In order to improve the timeliness of statistical information on the Italian labour market and in accordance with the agreements made within the European Union, […]

Employment and unemployment

Istat estimates that 23.1 million persons were employed in the II quarter 2011, up 0.4% (+87 thousands) from II quarter 2010. Employment rate was stable […]

Consumer prices (provisional)

The Consumer Price Index measures the change in prices over time of a set of goods andservices (CPI basket) representative of Italian household consumption. Istat […]