Trips and holidays in Italy and abroad

In 2014, trips with overnight stays made by residents were 63,632 million. Compared to 2013, there was a 9.5% decrease in the number of trips […]

Books production and reading

In 2014, over 23.8 million people aged 6 and over have read at least one book during the 12 months prior to the interview, for […]

Italian language, dialects and other languages

Over the past 18 years, from 1995 to 2012, the share of people using the Italian language as their main language or in combination with […]

Linguistic diversity among foreign citizens

Romanian is the most common mother tongue among foreign residents in Italy: almost 800 thousand people speak Romanian from early childhood (21.9% of the foreign […]

Books production and reading in Italy

In 2013, over 24 million people aged 6 and over report they had read at least one book during the 12 months prior to the […]

Museums and Monuments in Italy

4,588 museums and similar institutions, both public and private, were open to the public in Italy in 2011: they included 3,847 museums, galleries or collections, […]

Books production and reading

After the 2010 recovery, 2011 marks another standstill for Italian book production: new titles decrease by 9.4% and copies by 5.9%. Publishers consider as main […]

Report on Equitable and Sustainable Well-being

In this first Report on “Equitable and Sustainable Well-being” (Benessere  Equo e Sostenibile – Bes) the National Council for Economics and Labour  (Cnel) and the […]

Trips and holidays in Italy and abroad

Istat presents provisional estimates of the main aggregates of tourism demand in Italy in 2011, based on the multipurpose survey ‘Trips and holidays’ which has […]

Book-reading habits in Italy

In 2010, 46.8% of the population aged 6 and over said they had read at least one book (over 26,400,000 people) in their leisure time […]