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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1989
TABLE ! = TOTAL RETAIL SALES
Total Retail Sales for September1989 (Provisional Figure) = HK$ 8,786million For August 1989 (Revised Figure) = HK$ 8,921million
TABLE 2 : VALUE AND VOLUME INDEXES OF RETAIL SALES
FOR AUGUST 1989
AND SEPTEMBER 1989
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬➖ ➖➖ ➖
Monthly average of Det. 84 - Sept. 85 = 100)
!
Index of
#
Iten
Retail
1
Sales
# August
1989
¦ September 1989 ¦ + September 1 compared with ¦
1989 1 August 1909
September 1989 |
Jan.-Šap. 1989 1
compared with September 1988 |
compared with I Jas.-Sep. 1988
¦ IRevised
figures)
(Provisional ! Points
Points
1:
Points
1
| figures)
1 (A) FOR ALL RETAIL TRADES
t
#
1
1
Value
139
Volume
124
GE
157
¦
10
$21
-2
: (B) BY HAJOR TRADE GROUPS
}
:
t
Foodstuffs, alcoholic
}
Value
146
163
18
12 1
20
drinks and tobacco
Volume
154
126
12
10:
ח -
14 1 10
5 1
5
:
|
Feels
Value
119
121
Volume
120
સમ
2
14
13 1
2 1
2
2 1
Clothing, Footwear
Valbe
159
156
-
-1
14
and allied products
Voluse
114
113
-3
-17
ས
-2
Consuer durables
Value
154
142
Volume
117
106
Other consumer goods
1 Value
176
145
Valune
137
128
93 38
-12
-19
-10
-20
-16 ¦
-10
3 +
10
-7
-2
¦ (C) BY SELECTED TRADES
Isee note i below)
Supersartets
:
:
:
Value
194
212
18
29
21
13
Volume
149
162
13
T
2 |
}
I
:
Motor vehicles
Value
267
27t
}
-12
-
50
21:
and parts
Vologe
177
178
-21
23
13
1
Consumer durables
Value
119
103
-17
-21
-17 ¦
-16
-12:
other than sotor
Volume
93
84
-10
-14
-19
-19 |
-17
-16 1
vehicles and parts
1
}
Department stores
Value
210
176
-42
-19
16
10 1
20
11
Volume
163
129
-34
-21 1
1
2
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NOTES : 1. In order to analyse the sales of certain trades WITHIN major trade groups, the valse and võluse 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 motor vehicles and parts" a trade in the Consumer durables" group.
{d} "Department stores" a trade in the "Other consumer goods" group.
2. Figures denoting changes are derived from the unrounded index figures.
3. "a" denotes a figure within 10.5.
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