Residential care facilities

In Italy, residential care facilities, active at 31st December 2013, were 12,261, with 384,450 beds (6.3 for every 1,000 residents). The majority of the residential […]

Italian multinational enterprises

Data refer to 2013 for the business structure and economic activities carried out abroad by Italian-controlled enterprises, and to 2014-2015 for new investments abroad with […]

Bullying among early teens

Depending on the frequency which characterizes aggressive episodes, one can distinguish between a singular episode of offense and repeated (at least several times a month) […]

Tourist flow: supply and demand

The National Institute of Statistics releases together for the first time data on tourist flows in 2014 from the point of view of supply and […]

Research and development

In 2013, in current price terms, Italy’s gross domestic expenditure on Research and Development (GERD) was near to 21 billion euro. It increased by 2.3% […]

Structure and competitiveness of enterprises

In 2013, value added of enterprise in industrial and services sectors reduced for the second year in a row (-1.7% compared to 2012); the number […]

Air transport in Italy

The National Institute of Statistics releases statistics on air transport for the year 2014. The Air transport Survey is carried out in accordance with EC […]

Non observed economy

In the comprehensive revision of national accounts accompanying the migration to the ESA 2010, Istat has developed an in-depth revision of all the methodologies used […]

Pensions and pensioners

In 2014 total pension expenditure reached 277,067 millions of euro, registering an increase by 1.6% compared to 2013. Its incidence rate on Gdp grew by […]

Birth and fertility

In 2014, 502,596 births were registered in the Resident Population Register. There were 12,000 fewer births than in 2013. The figures confirm the downward trend […]