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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1989
TABLE 1: TOTAL RETAIL SALES
Total Retail Sales for August 1989 (Provisional Figure) = HK$ 8,922million
1989 (Revised Figurel
= HK$ 8,4
for July
„434million
TABLE 2 :
VALUE AND VOLUME INDEXES OF RETAIL SALES FOR JULY 1999 AND AUGUST 1989
Monthly average of Oct. 84 - Sept. 85 = 100)
Index of
*
Item
Retail
L
Sales
1
July 1989
t August
1987
July
August ¦ compared with
1989
1989:
August compared with ¦ 1980 | August
1989:
Jan. -Aug. compared with Jan.-Aug.
$989 1
|
1980 :
:
(Revised
! (Provisional i
Points
Points
I !
Points
figures!
¦ figures)
: (A) FOR ALL RETAIL TRADES
1
Value
151
159
21
Volume
118
124
A
-3 1
# 1
¦ (8) BY MAJOR TRADE GROUPS
Foodstuffs, alcoholic
Value
147
146
-1
drinks and tobacco
Volume
115
114
7N
-1
21
17 1
IB
15
-2
R
4
Fuel
Value
119
119
12
12 ¦
-
Volume
118
!
119
2:
2
1 !
|
Clothing, footwear
Value
159
11
-9
-5 !
17
10
and allied products.
Volume
109
116
-19
Consumer durables
Value
138
154
16
12 |
-15
2
Vol Bar
1
105
HT
12
11 ¦
-17
-13 |
-T
1
Other consumer goods
Value
164
174
12
は
7 1
Yotune
127
137
เง
-31
1
1 1
1
: (C) BY SELECTED TRADES
:
(see note I below!
Supersarkets
Value
195
194
Voluse
150
149
77
-41
29
18
20
13
-1
2
32
Motor vehicles
Value
237
267
31
13:
57
25 1
and parts
Volume
L5B
177
19
17:
29
17 1
Consumer durables
Value
108
119
other than fotor
Volume
ca
25
98
**
12
11:
-20
-14
-16
-12
10
-18
-17
-15
vehicles and parts
Department stores
Value
190
218
78
15 1
11
5 1
21
Volume
141
163
22
16:
-6
-41
3
2 ¦
MOTES : 1. In order to analyse the sales of certain trades MITHIN major trade groups, the value and volume indexes
in respect of the following selected trades are compiled:
(a) *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 stor vehicles and parts" - a trade in the "Consumer durables" groep.
(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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