Italy - Secondary Industries Employment





Italy: Secondary Industries Employment

Mnemonic ESEC.IITA
Unit Ths. #
Annual 0.54 %
Data 2025 6,184
2024 6,151

Series Information

Source Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT)
Release Employment by Industry
Frequency Annual
Start Date 12/31/1995
End Date 12/31/2025

Italy: Labor

Reference Last Previous Units Frequency
Unemployment Rate May 2026 5 5.08 %, SA Monthly
Labor Force Employment 2026 Q1 24,206 24,139 Ths. #, SA Quarterly
Total Employment 2026 Q1 24,206 24,139 Ths. #, SA Quarterly
Unemployment 2026 Q1 1,341 1,451 Ths. #, SA Quarterly
Primary Industries Employment 2025 951 945.3 Ths. # Annual
Secondary Industries Employment 2025 6,184 6,151 Ths. # Annual
Wage & Salaries 2024 866,095 823,169 Mil. EUR Annual
Agriculture Employment 2017 996,718 993,689 # Annual
Tertiary Industries Employment 2017 17,760,676 17,907,124 # Annual

Release Information

For Italy, regional estimates for internal work units, value added, gross domestic product (GDP), income from employment, and household final consumption expenditure. Disseminated by Istat.

Active:

  • National accounts framework: ESA 2010
  • Activity classification: ATECO 2007, the localization of NACE Rev. 2
  • Measurements:
    • Millions of euros at previous year prices (Mil. prv. yr. EUR)
    • At current prices (Mil. EUR)
  • Adjustment: Not applicable
  • Native frequency: Annual
  • Start dates:
    • Uniformly 2022 for "at previous year prices"
    • Uniformly 2021 for nominal
  • Geo coverage:
    • Country (IITA)
    • Combined grouped regions (1x IITA_^^^^^)
    • Group of regions / NUTS 1 (7x IITA_^^^^)
    • Region / NUTS 2 (22x IITA_^^)
    • Province / NUTS 3 and extra-regio (108x IITA_^^^)
  • Concept-geo pairing:
    • 17 concepts (nominal only) for NUTS 3 areas
    • 84 concepts for all other geo levels and extra-regio

Predecessors:

  • At 2015 prices - {1995, 1996, 2000} to 2021 ("_15")
  • ESA 2010, NACE Rev. 2, at 2010 prices - 1995 to 2014 ("_10")
  • ESA 95, NACE Rev. 2, at 2005 prices - 1995 to 2012 ("_E95")
  • ESA 95, NACE Rev. 1.1, at 2000 prices - As early as 1992 to 2012 ("_00")

Global concept aliases:

  • None

Labour input: the main definitions concern persons employed, jobs and full time equivalent. In SNA, labour inputs have to be classified on the base of the economic activity unit at local level and of the institutional unit. The Italian approach calculation of jobs and the corresponding full time equivalent, representing transformation to full-time of jobs for different working categories (registered, unregistered, main, multiple) detectable by integrating and comparing different statistical sources or by using indirect estimating methods.

October 3, 2014 - Istat released the new annual national accounts according to ESA 2010, along with an extraordinary revision, exploiting advances in methods and sources (e.g. the new balance of payments estimates issued by the Bank of Italy according to BPM6).

September 23, 2019 - The time series of national accounts, based on the new European System of Accounts (ESA 2010), have been subjected to an extraordinary revision, exploiting advances in methods and sources. The revision took place in coordination with other European countries.

Further reading

At the source:

At IMF (SDDS Plus):

  • May 2011 - Initial version.
  • May 2013 - Reclassified to NACE Rev. 2, currency reference year advanced to 2005.
  • Oct 2015 - Framework advanced to ESA 2010.
  • Jun 2020 - Currency reference year advanced to 2015.
  • 20 Feb 2025, Phillip Thorne - Currency reference year advanced to 2020: Properties.