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Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board Special Data Dissemination Standard (AS PROVIDED TO THE IMF BY THE RESPECTIVE COUNTRY) Italy Summary of Observance          Printer Friendly Page Contact Person(s)   Mr. Giovanni Barbieri, Direttore Centrale, Diffusione della Cultura e dell'Informazione Statistica , Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT - National Institute of Statistics), Via Cesare Balbo, 16, Roma, Italy 00184   Phone : 39 06 46734140   Fax : 39 06 46734177   Email : barbieri@istat.it  Access National Summary Data Page Cross-country comparisons: access the DSBB metadata query facility

Italy ( ITA )
SDDS Data Category	Coverage(meets SDDS)	Periodicity		Timeliness		Comments (Flexibility Options, etc)
		SDDS	ITA	SDDS	ITA
Real Sector (specifications)
National accounts	Yes	Q	Q	1Q	10W
Production index (Indicatori di produzione dell’industria )	Yes	M	M	6W (1M encour- aged)	NLT 6W	Timeliness flexibility
Labor market: Employment (Rilevazione sulle forze di lavoro )	Yes	Q	Q	1Q	NLT 1Q
Labor market: Unemployment (Rilevazione sulle forze di lavoro )	Yes	Q	Q	1Q	NLT 1Q
Labor market: Wages/Earnings (Contratti, retribuzioni e conflitti di lavoro )	Yes	Q	M	1Q	1M
Price index: Consumer prices (Indici dei prezzi al consumo (Consumer price indices) )	Yes	M	M	1M	NLT 2W
Price index: Producer prices (Indice dei prezzi alla produzione dei prodotti industrial )	Yes	M	M	1M	NLT 1M
Fiscal Sector (specifications)
General government or public sector operations (Fabbisogno del settore pubblico )	Yes	A	A	2Q	NLT 2Q
Central government operations (Fabbisogno del settore statale )	Yes	M	M	1M	7W	Timeliness flexibility
Central government debt (Debito del settore statale )	Yes	Q	Q	1Q	NLT 1Q
Financial Sector (specifications)
Analytical accounts of the banking sector (Aggregati monetari e creditizi dell'area dell'euro: le componenti italiane )	Yes	M	M	1M	1M
Analytical accounts of the central bank (Bilancio della Banca Centrale )	Yes	M (W recom- mended )	M	2W (1W encour- aged)	NLT 1W
Interest rates (Tassi di interesse )	Yes	D	D	1	1D
Stock market: Share price index (Indici azionari di borsa )	Yes	D	D	1	D
External Sector (specifications)
Balance of payments (Bilancia dei pagamenti )	Yes	Q	M	1Q	1M
Official reserve assets	Yes	M(W recom- mended)	M	1W	NLT 1W
Reserves template	Yes	M	M	1M (1W encour- aged)	NLT 1M
Merchandise trade (Commercio con l'estero )	Yes	M	M	8W (4-6W encour- aged)	NLT 7W
International investment position (Posizione verso l'estero del paese )	Yes	A(Q recom- mended)	SA	3Q (1Q encour- aged)	NLT 5M
External debt	Yes	Q	Q	1Q	1Q
Exchange rates (Tassi di cambio )	Yes	D	D	1	D
Socio-demographic Data (specifications)
Population (Bilancio Demografico Nazionale )	Yes	A	A	...	NLT 2Q

Periodicity and timeliness: (D) daily; (W) weekly or with a lag of ## week(s) from the reference date; (WD) working days, or business days; (M) monthly or with a lag of ## month(s); (NLT) not later than; (Q) quarterly or with a lag of ## quarter(s); (A) annually; (SA) semiannual; and (...) not applicable. 1Given that the data are broadly disseminated by private means, the timeliness with which official data are disseminated is not time critical.