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COMPARED WITH MAY 1983, RETAIL SALES OF CONSUMER DURABLES INCREASED BY 4 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS OR 2 PER CENT IN VOLUME TERMS.
RETAIL SALES OF FOODSTUFFS, ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND TOBACCO REMAINED UNCHANGED IN VALUE TERMS, BUT DECLINED BY 3 PER CENT IN VOLUME TERMS.
RETAIL SALES OF CLOTHING, FOOTWEAR AND ALLIED PRODUCTS RECORDED A DECREASE OF 8 PER CENT IN TERMS OF VALUE, OR 9 PER CENT IN TERMS OF VOLUME.
THE CORRESPONDING DECREASES FOR RETAIL SALES OF FUELS WERE 1 PER CENT AND 4 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY. RETAIL SALES OF OTHER CONSUMER GOODS WENT DOWN BY 2 PER CENT IN BOTH VALUE AND VOLUME TERMS.
COMPARED WITH JUNE 1982, RETAIL SALES OF FUELS ROSE BY 20 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS, THOSE OF FOODSTUFFS, ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND TOBACCO BY 14 PER CENT, CONSUMER DURABLES BY 12 PER CENT, OTHER CONSUMER GOODS BY 10 PER CENT, AND CLOTHING, FOOTWEAR AND ALLIED PRODUCTS BY 6 PER CENT.
IN VOLUME TERMS, RETAIL SALES OF CONSUMER DURABLES WENT UP BY 9 PER CENT, FOLLOWED BY FOODSTUFFS, ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND TOBACCO, AND FUELS, WITH INCREASES OF 5 PER CENT AND 3 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY. THE VOLUME OF RETAIL SALES OF OTHER CONSUMER GOODS, AND CLOTHING, FOOTWEAR AND ALLIED PRODUCTS REMAINED UNCHANGED.
ANALYSED BY SELECTED TRADES, BOTH SUPERMARKETS AND MOTOR VEHICLES SHOWED INCREASES IN THE VALUE AND VOLUME OF RETAIL SALES WHEN COMPARED WITH MAY 1983. DEPARTMENT STORES, HOWEVER, RECORDED DECREASES IN BOTH THE VALUE AND VOLUME OF SALES.
WHEN COMPARED WITH JUNE 1982, RETAIL SALES OF SUPERMARKETS INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY IN BOTH VALUE AND VOLUME TERMS.
WHILE DEPARTMENT STORE SALES SHOWED AN INCREASE IN VALUE, THERE WAS A MODERATE DECLINE IN SALES VOLUME. RETAIL SALES OF MOTOR VEHICLES DROPPED IN BOTH VALUE AND VOLUME TERMS,
TABLES 1 AND 2 PRESENT THE REVISED FIGURES FOR MAY 1983 AND THE PROVISIONAL FIGURES FOR JUNE 1983 OF TOTAL RETAIL SALES AND RETAIL SALES VALUE AND VOLUME INDEXES BY MAJOR TRADE GROUPS AND SELECTED TRADES (WHICH FORM PART OF THE RELEVANT MAJOR TRADE GROUPS).
THE AVERAGE MONTHLY RETAIL SALES IN 1980 ARE TAKEN AS 100. COMPARISONS OF THE JUNE 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, TEL. NO.: 3-7216024.
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