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THURSDAY, AUGUST 2,
1990
TABLE 1
: TOTAL RETAIL SALES
Total Retail Sales for May
for April
1990 (Provisional Figure) = HK39,329 million 1990 (Revised Figure! = HK38,781 million
TABLE 2: VALUE AND VOLUME INDEXES OF RETAIL SALES
FOR APRIL 1990 AND MAY 1990
[Monthly average of Oct. 34
Sept. 85 100)
Inder of
I
F
Item
¦ Retail
¦ Sales
April
1990
May
1990
May compared with ¦ April 1990
1990
May compared with May
1990
Jan.-May 1990 compared with
1989
Jan.-May 1989:
(Revised
1 (Provisional
Points
Points
Points
figures)
! figures)
I
(A) FOR ALL RETAIL TRADES
4
I
¦ (8) BY MAJOR TRADE GROUPS
¦ Value
157
¦ Volume
116
167
10
122
****
+6 !
+8
+5
+5
-1
-1
***
-3
Foodstuffs, alcoholic
drinks and tobacco
¦ Value
144
153
+8
+6
+10
¦ Volume
103
114
+6
+6
==
+7:
+14
+10
+1
+1
+3
+3
Fuels
¦ Value
117
128
+12
+10:
+12
+10
+16
+16
Volume
102
112
+10
+10
Clothing, footwear
Value
147
188
and allied products
¦ Volume
126
123
w±
+5:
-10
7=
-1
77
-1
-7
Consumer durables.
! Value
145
162
+17
+12
蕊
+13
-5
: Volume
105
116
+11
+11
+5
+4
Other consumer goods
¦ Value
168
177
+9
+5
+21
Volume
125
130
+5
***
+2
+1
-6
(C) BY SELECTED TRADES
(see note 1 below?
Supermarkets
Value
192
200
+16
+9
+33
+19
Volume
137
143
+10
+11
+8
Motor vehicles
Value
263
310
+47
+18
+20
+7
and parts
Volume
164
193
+29
+18 ¦
+1
28 22
+21
+10
+22
-7
-27
-13
Consumer durables
Value
105
117
+8
+11
+11
other than notor
Volume
07
93
+7
A
*ས
vehicles and parts
Department stores
Value
201
211
+10
+5
+20
+11: +19
+
+9
¦ Volume
138
:
141
+3
+3
+3}
+3
+2
NOTES: 1. In order to analyse the sales of certain trades WITHIN 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.
-
a trade in the "Consumer durables' group.
-
a trade in the "Other consumer goods' group,
(c) *Consumer durables other than motor vehicles and parts" (d) 'Department stores"
2. Figures denoting changes are derived from the unrounded index figures, 3. "I' denotes a figure within ±0.5.
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