Releases and notes for the press

National accounts, prices, production, sales, turnover and orders, external trade, employment, wages and salaries: every year ISTAT issues more than 150 press releases on the main national socio-economic indicators according to a yearly schedule.

Along with scheduled releases the website hosts nearly as many non-scheduled reports on the latest economic and social phenomena.

Each press release is accompanied by a set of tables and time series for comparisons over time, a glossary of the technical terminology used and explanatory notes on the methods adopted to produce the information: sample size, index definition procedures, data seasonal adjustment techniques. The first page lists the names and phone numbers of the person in charge of the survey who can be contacted as of the day of release of the press release for information and clarification; contact details are also provided for the Press Office and Rome-based Statistical Information Centre from which copies of the press release can be obtained.