FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1984
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OCTOBER RETAIL SALES SURVEY RESULTS RELEASED
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THE VALUE OF RETAIL SALES IN OCTOBER 1984, ESTIMATED AT $5 527 MILLION, WAS EIGHT PER CENT HIGHER THAN IN OCTOBER 1983, WHILE THE VOLUME WAS FIVE PER CENT HIGHER, ACCORDING TO PROVISIONAL SURVEY RESULTS RELEASED TODAY BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
RETAIL SALES FOR THE PERIOD AUGUST - OCTOBER 1984, WHEN COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1983, ROSE BY 10 PER CENT IN VALUE AND FOUR PER CENT IN VOLUME.
+COMPARING OCTOBER 1984 WITH SEPTEMBER 1984, AND BEARING IN MIND THAT THIS COMPARISON IS AFFECTED BY SEASONAL FACTORS, RETAIL SALES INCREASED BY ONE PER CENT IN BOTH VALUE AND VOLUME TERMS, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT SAID,
IN OCTOBER 1984, RETAIL SALES OF CLOTHING, FOOTWEAR AND ALLIED PRODUCTS INCREASED BY 25 PER CENT IN VALUE AND 12 PER CENT IN VOLUME WHEN COMPARED WITH OCTOBER 1983. MEANWHILE, CONSUMER DURABLES RECORDED AN INCREASE OF 17 PER CENT IN SALES VALUE AND 13 PER CENT IN SALES VOLUME. RETAIL SALES OF FOODSTUFFS, ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND TOBACCO ROSE LESS RAPIDLY, BY SEVEN PÉR CENT IN VALUE AND EIGHT PER CENT IN VOLUME, WHILST THOSE OF OTHER CONSUMER GOODS INCREASED BY ONLY THREE PER CENT IN VALUE AND ONE PER CENT IN VOLUME. ON THE OTHER HAND, FUELS RECORDED A DROP OF FOUR PER CENT IN SALES VALUE BUT REMAINED UNCHANGED IN SALES VOLUME.
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A COMPARISON OF THE PERIOD AUGUST OCTOBER 1984 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1983, SHOWED RETAIL SALES OF CLOTHING, FOOTWEAR AND ALLIED PRODUCTS RECORDED THE LARGEST INCREASES IN BOTH VALUE AND VOLUME TERMS, AT 27 PER CENT AND 13 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY, RETAIL SALES OF CONSUMER DURABLES ALSO INCREASED, BY 17 PER CENT IN VALUE AND NINE PER CENT IN VOLUME, WHILST THOSE OF FOODSTUFFS, ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND TOBACCO ROSE BY 12 PER CENT IN VALUE AND SIX PER CENT IN VOLUME. OTHER CONSUMER GOODS REGISTERED A SLIGHT INCREASE
IN SALES VALUE, AT FIVE PER CENT, BUT REMAINED UNCHANGED IN SALES VOLUME. HOWEVER, FUELS WHICH SHOWED NO CHANGE IN SALES VALUE, RECORDED A DECREASE OF ONE PER CENT IN SALES VOLUME.
WHEN COMPARED WITH THE SEPTEMBER 1984 FIGURES, RETAIL SALES OF CLOTHING, FOOTWEAR AND ALLIED PRODUCTS IN OCTOBER 1954 INCREASED BY 12 PER CENT IN VALUE AND NINE PER CENT
N VOLUME. THOSE OF OTHER CONSUMER GOODS ROSE BY FIVE PER CENT IN VALUE AND SIX PER CENT IN VOLUME. RETAIL SALES OF FLES ALSO INCREASED, BY ONE PER CENT ! BOTH VALUE AND VOME TERMS. ON THE OTHER HAND, RETAIL SALES OF CONSUMER
ABLES DROPPED BY TWO PER CENT IN BOTH VALUE AND VOLUME, W LOT THOSE OF FOODSTUFFS, ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND TOBACCO DECREASED BY NINE PER CENT IN VALUE AND SEVEN PER CENT IN VOLUME.
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