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WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1986
TOTAL RETAIL SALES
Total detail Sales for April 1986 (Provisional Figure)
for Karch 1986 (Revised Figure)
-
HK$5 575 million
- HK$5 706 million
TABLE 2
8
VALDE AND VOLUME INDEXES OF RETAIL SALES FOR MARCH AND APRIL 1986
(Monthly average of 1980 = 100)
Item
Index of Retail Sales
March 1986
April 1986
April 1986
compared with
March 1986
April 1986 compared with
April 1985
Feb. 86
-
compared with
Apr. 86
(Revimad
figures)
(Provic-
ional figures)
Points
Points
Feb. 85
Points
Apr. 85
(A) FOR
RETAIL INADES
Value
168
164
+5
+3
Volume
113
110
- 3
+1
+1
3
(B) BY MAJOR TRADE GROUPS
Foodstuffs, alcoholic drinks and tobacco
Value
194
185
+1
Volume
119
120
+1
+1
5
+ 5
Fuels
Value
188
174
-13
7
-19
-
10
Volume
124
124
Clothing, footwear
Value
215
225
+10
and allied products
4
+1
+14
*14
+7
Volume
150
130
+
+
Consumer durables
Halue
149
152
+3
2
+8
2
Volume
105
104
1
2
TH
-
Other consumer goods
Value
158
147
-11
- 7
Volume
109
101
. A
7
+2
-1
-1
5
- 5
+
N
(C) BY JELENTED TRADES
Supermarketa
Value
334
309
&
7
+21
* 7
+29
Volume
200
185
-15
-
+11
+6
+14
+7
Motor vehicles and parts
Valvr
86
9:6
+12
+14
+9
+10
+6
+7
Volume
46
51
+12
- 1
2
1
Consumer durables other
Value
192
189
- 2
.
-1
then motor vehicles
and parti
Volume
146
140
1
6
FU
Department stores
Value
153
147
-
5
+11
ON
Volume
107
101
-
6
- 6
* 5
+5
1
8
7
Notes #
2.
1. "Foodstuff, alcoholic drinks and tobacco" includes "supermarkete".
Consumer durables" includes "motor vehicles and part".
3. "Other contumer goods" includes "department stores",
4. Figures denoting changes are derived from the unrounded index figuren,
* denotes shange of less than 0.5.
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