Citizens and the ICTs

Every year the survey on “Aspects of daily life” provides data on households’ behaviour and relevant aspects of their daily life. The information presented today […]

Energy consumptions of households

Almost all the households live in dwellings with space and water heating, while systems for cooling are less common (only 3 out of 10 households). […]

Health and safety at work

Istat disseminates the main results of the ad hoc module “Health and Safety at work”, inserted in the Labour Force Survey during the second quarter […]

Tourism accomodation capacity and occupancy

The National Institute of Statistics releases statistics on the capacity and occupancy of tourist accommodation establishments for the year 2013.The “Capacity of tourist accommodation establishments” […]

Residential care facilities

In Italy, residential care facilities, active at 31st December 2012, were 11,571, with 372,962 beds (6.2 for every 1,000 residents). The majority of the residential […]

Pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding in Italy

Pregnant women in Italy have access to good health care services. Istat survey on Health Conditions and Use of Health Services estimates that in 2013 […]

Pensions and pensioners

In 2013 total pension expenditure reached 272,746 million euro, registering an increase by 0.7% compared to 2012. Its incidence rate on Gdp grew by 0.22 […]

Research and development in Italy

In 2012, in current price terms, Italy’s gross domestic expenditure on Research and Development (GERD) was 20.5 billion euro. It increased by 3.5% compared to […]

Leading causes of death in Italy

In 2012 there were 613,520 deaths in Italy and the age-standardized mortality rate was 92.2 per 10,000 residents. From 2007 through 2012 the age-standardized rate […]

Structure and competitiveness of enterprises

In 2012 enterprises in the industrial and services sectors were 4.4 million and employed about 16.1 million of persons (11.2 million employees). The average enterprise […]