Employment and unemployment

Istat has produced back-recalculated time series, both quarterly and annual from 1977 up today, for the main labour market indicators, thus overcoming the break due […]

Use and abuse of alcohol in Italy

In 2012 the percentage of population aged 14 and over who consumed at least one alcoholic drink during the year was 66.6%. This rate is […]

GDP and General Government net borrowing

The National Institute of Statistics releases the estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and General Government debt in accordance with the definitions of the European […]

Trips and holidays in Italy and abroad

Istat presents provisional estimates of the main aggregates of tourism demand in Italy in 2012, based on the survey ‘Trips and holidays’ which has been […]

Integration of disabled students

During 2011-2012 school year about 145 thousand disabled students were enrolled in compulsory education: about 81 thousand in primary school and 63 thousand in lower […]

Investments on environmental protection

The environmental protection expenditure for industry, in 2010, is 1,925 million euros, of which 1,440 million euros are investments in equipment and plant for pollution […]

Environmental expenditure of Italian regions

The 2004-2010 time series of regional administrations’ environmental expenditure are calculated through the budget analysis methodology: every single expenditure item of the regional administrations’ public […]

Air travel in Italy

The National Institute of Statistics makes available statistics on air transport for the year 2011. The survey on air transport is carried out in accordance […]

ICT in enterprises

In 2012, 95.7% of enterprises with 10 persons employed has a Internet connection; in many economic sectors have been reached saturation levels. The 93.6% of […]

Prisoners in the Italian Penal Institutions

There are about 10.000.000 prisoners in the world, most of whom are finally sentenced. The Prison population rate per 100,000 inhabitants is 112.6 In Italy, 127.7, […]