Consumer and business confidence

With regard to the consumer survey, the confidence climate index improved slightly in October 2017 from 115.6 to 116.1. The economic, personal and current components […]

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 with non-EU countries

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in September 2017. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in September […]

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 […]

Net borrowing and debt in the EDP Notification

In this release, Istat provides government deficit and debt data based on figures reported in the second 2017 notification by Italy to the EC for the […]

Sports practice in Italy

In 2015, over 20 million people aged 3 and over practiced one or more sports continuously (24.4%) or occasionally (9.8%). The rate of those who […]

Production and costs in construction

In August 2017 the seasonally adjusted index of production in construction compared with the previous month increased by 1.8%. In the quarter Jun-Aug 2017 the […]

Foreign trade and Industrial import prices

Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2010=100) referring to August 2017. In August 2017 […]

Consumer prices

In September 2017, the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) decreased by 0.3% on monthly basis and increased by 1.1% compared with […]

Corruption in Italy

  For the first time, Istat has introduced a series of questions in its 2015-2016 survey on the Safety of citizens, in order to examine […]