TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1963
COMPARED WITH FEBRUARY 1983, RETAIL SALES OF FUELS, CONSUMER DURABLES AND OTHER CONSUMER GOODS INCREASED BY 19 PER CENT, NINE PER CENT AND EIGHT PER CENT RESPECTIVELY IN VALUE TERMS. THE IR CORRESPONDING INCREASES IN VOLUME TERMS WERE 14 PER CENT, EIGHT PER CENT AND NINE PER CENT,
DECREASES IN VALUE TERMS OF EIGHT PER CENT WERE RECORDED FOR CLOTHING, FOOTWEAR AND ALLIED PRODUCTS, AND OF SEVEN PER CENT FOR FOODSTUFFS, ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND TOBACCO. THEIR DECREASES IN VOLUME TERMS WERE 10 PER CENT EACH.
COMPARED WITH MARCH 1982, FOODSTUFFS, ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND TOBACCO INCREASED BY 22 PER CENT, FUELS BY 15 PER CENT, AND CLOTHING, FOOTWEAR AND ALLIED PRODUCTS BY 14 PER CENT, ́ IN TERMS OF THE VALUE OF RETAIL SALES.
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IN VOLUME TERMS, FOODSTUFFS, ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND TOBACCO AND CLOTHING, FOOTWEAR AND ALLIED PRODUCTS RECORDED INCREASES OF SIX PER CENT AND SEVEN PER CENT RESPECTIVELY WHILE FUELS SHOWED A DECLINE OF TWO PER CENT.
RETAIL SALES OF CONSUMER DURABLES AND OTHER CONSUMER GOODS, ON THE OTHER HAND, FELL BY 15 PER CENT AND TWO PER CENT RESPECTIVELY IN VALUE TERMS OR 17 PER CENT AND 10 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY IN VOLUME TERMS.
WHEN ANALYSED BY SELECTED TRADES, RETAIL SALES OF DEPARTMENT STORES AND SUPERMARKETS DECLINED SUBSTANTIALLY IN BOTH VALUE AND VOLUME TERMS WHEN COMPARED WITH FEBRUARY 1983, AND THIS WAS ALSO THE CASE, THOUGH TO A LESSER EXTENT, WITH THE MOTOR VEHICLE TRADE.
WHEN COMPARED WITH MARCH 1982, HOWEVER, SUPERMARKETS REGISTERED SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES IN BOTH VALUE AND VOLUME OF SALES.
DEPARTMENT STORES, ALTHOUGH RECORDING AN INCREASE IN VALUE, HAD A MARGINAL DECREASE IN VOLUME OF SALES WHILE THE MOTOR VEHICLE TRADE EXPERIENCED LARGE DECLINES IN BOTH VALUE AND VOLUME TERMS.
TABLES 1 AND 2 PRESENT THE REVISED FIGURES FOR FEBRUARY .D THE PROVISIONAL FIGURES FOR MARCH 1983 ON THE TOTAL RETAIL SALES, AND ON THE 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 MARCH RESULTS WITH THOSE OF THE PRECEDING MONTH AND OF THE CORRESPONDING MONTH IN 1982 ARE ALSO GIVEN.
ENQUIRIES ABOUT THE SURVEY RESULTS MAY BE DIRECTED TO THE WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TRADE STATISTICS SECTION OF THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT ON 3-7216024.
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