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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1983
SURVEY OF RETAIL SALES FOR NOVEMBER, 1982
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THE VALUE OF RETAIL SALES FOR THE RETAIL TRADE SECTOR IN NOVEMBER 1982 WAS ESTIMATED TO BE $4 479 MILLION, ACCORDING TO PROVISIONAL SURVEY RESULTS.
AT 132, THE OVERALL RETAIL SALES VALUE INDEX FOR NOVEMBER 1982 INCREASED BY ONE POINT OR ONE PER CENT WHEN COMPARED WITH OCTOBER 1982 BUT REMAINED UNCHANGED WHEN COMPARED WITH NOVEMBER 1981.
THE OVERALL RETAIL SALES VOLUME INDEX FOR NOVEMBER 1982, AT 105, WAS THE SAME AS THAT FOR OCTOBER 1982 BUT IT WAS EIGHT POINTS OR SEVEN PER CENT LOWER THAN THAT FOR NOVEMBER 1981.
COMPARED WITH OCTOBER 1982, RETAIL SALES OF DEPARTMENT STORES INCREASED BY SEVEN PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS AND SIX PER CENT IN VOLUME TERMS WHILE THOSE OF CONSUMER DURABLES INCREASED BY THREE PER CENT IN BOTH VALUE AND VOLUME TERMS.
RETAIL SALES OF CLOTHING, FOOTWEAR AND ALLIED PRODUCTS RECORDED AN INCREASE OF THREE PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS, BUT REMAINED UNCHANGED IN VOLUME TERMS.
ON THE OTHER HAND, RETAIL SALES OF SUPERMARKETS DECREASED BY SIX PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS AND SEVEN PER CENT IN VOLUME TERMS WHILE THOSE OF FUELS REMAINED UNCHANGED IN VALUE TERMS BUT DECLINED BY THREE PER CENT IN VOLUME TERMS.
THE RETAIL SALES VALUE AND VOLUME INDEXES FOR THE OTHER MAJOR TRADE GROUPS AND SELECTED TRADES WERE RELATIVELY STABLE.
COMPARED WITH NOVEMBER 1981, DECREASES IN THE VOLUME OF RETAIL SALES WERE RECORDED FOR NEARLY ALL MAJOR TRADE GROUPS AND SELECTED TRADES.
ONLY SUPERMARKETS RECORDED INCREASES IN BOTH THE VALUE AND VOLUME OF RETAIL SALES, BY 22 PER CENT AND 13 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
THE SHARPEST REDUCTION WAS FOUND IN MOTOR VEHICLES WHERE THE RETAIL SALES DROPPED BY 40 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS AND
49 PER CENT IN VOLUME TERMS.
THE CORRESPONDING DECREASES FOR CONSUMER DURABLES WERE 11 PER CENT AND 14 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
THE VOLUME OF RETAIL SALES OF CLOTHING, FOOTWEAR AND ALLIED PRODUCTS, AND CONSUMER GOODS DECREASED BY SEVEN PER CENT EACH.
TABLES 1 AND 2 (ATTACHED) PRESENT THE REVISED FIGURES FOR OCTOBER AND THE PROVISIONAL FIGURES FOR NOVEMBER 1982 OF TOTAL RETAIL SALES, AND OF RETAIL SALES VALUE AND VOLUME INDEXES BY SELECTED TRADES AND MAJOR, TRADE GROUPS.
THE AVERAGE MONTHLY RETAIL SALES IN 1980 ARE TAKEN AS 100. COMPARISONS OF THE NOVEMBER RESULTS WITH THOSE OF THE PRECEDING MONTH AND OF THE CORRESPONDING MONTH IN 1981 ARE ALSO GIVEN.
ENQUIRIES ABOUT THE SURVEY RESULTS MAY BE DIRECTED TO THE WHOLESALES AND RETAIL TRADE STATISTICS SECTION OF THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT, TEL. NO. 3-7216024.
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