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: TOTAL RETAIL SALES
TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1989
TABLE 1
Total Retales for May
for April
1989 (Provisional Figure) 1989 (Revised Figurel
= HK$ 8,873million HK$ 8,482million
TABLE 2 #
VALUE AND VOLUBE INDEXES OF RETAIL SALES FOR APRIL 1989 AND NAY 1987
(Monthly average of Dcl. 84 - Sept. 85 = 100)
Irden of
Kay
1989
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feta:1 Sales
April 1589
May 1929
1 compared with
! April 1989:
Kay 1999 | Jan.-May. 1989 | compared with compared with May 1988 Jan.-May. 1988
H
(Revised
(Provisional
Points
= !
Points
I :
Points
figures)
¦ figures)
# (A) FOR ALL RETAIL TRADES
¦ (8) BY KAJOR TRADE GROUPS
Value Volume
ISI
158
T
5 1
10
71
18
118
123
M
5
5
Foodstuffs, alcoholic
Value
:
132
143
=
11
8 !
drinks and tobacco
Volume
106
113
71
==
29
26
18
फ
13
13:
3 1
1
P
Fuels
Value
103
[17
14
13
20
20:
Volume
106
11B
12
11 1
14
14 |
2
Clothing, footwear
Value
193
180
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16
10
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and allied products
Voluce
140
127
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Consumer durables
Value
146
149
Voluze
110
:11
I
Other consumer goods
Value
163
173
Voluce
127
134
S$ 25
2:
-14
15
10
21
-19
-15
N 2
2 1
10
18
12 1
7
-1
5 1
: (C) BY SELECTED TARDES
4
(see note I below!
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}
Supermarkets
} Value
155
1
Notor vehicles
and parts
Consumer durables
Volume
122
38
175
137
£5
20
29
19 1
13
15
12 ¦
10
71
2
- 1
12 ¦
Value
206
290
53
22 |
97
Voluee
191
194
2:
26
15:
54
35
E&
45
1
Value
103
106
3:
other than totor
:
Volume
85
B6
7 1 -33
38
-35
-25
-10
-29
-13
÷÷
-1
-12
vehicles and parts
Department stores
Value Volume
185
139
191 138
3
-11
-5
31
17
−1
-
-21
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NOTES : 1. In order to analyse the sales of certain trades HITHIN major trade groups, the value and volume indexes
in respect of the following selected trades are compiled :
lat *Supermarkets" a trade in the "Foodstuffs, alcoholic drinks and tobacco' group,
(b) Motor vehicles and parts* a trade in the "Consumer durables" group.
(c) Consumer durables other than actor vehicles and parts" - a trade in the "Consuser durables' groud.
(d) "Department stores" a trade in the "Other consumer goods" group.
2. Figures denoting changes are derived from the unrounded index figures.
3.
denotes a figure within ±0.5.
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