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SALES OF CLOTHING,
CONSUMER FOOTWEAR ROSE
ON THE SAME BASIS OF COMPARISON, RETAIL DURABLES WENT UP BY 3% IN VALUE AND 2% IN VOLUME. AND ALLIED PRODUCTS REMAINED ALMOST UNCHANGED IN SALES VALUE BUT BY 4% IN SALES VOLUME.
RETAIL SALES OF OTHER CONSUMER GOODS DROPPED BY 5% IN VALUE AND 3% IN VOLUME.
PARTS
ANALYSED BY SELECTED TRADES, RETAIL SALES OF MOTOR VEHICLES AND CONSUMER DURABLES INCREASED BY 7% IN VALUE AND 6% IN VOLUME. OTHER THAN MOTOR VEHICLES AND PARTS WENT UP BY 1% IN SALES VALUE REMAINED ALMOST UNCHANGED IN SALES VOLUME.
BUT
IN SALES IN DEPARTMENT STORES DECREASED BY 10% IN VALUE AND 6%
AND 13% IN VOLUME WHILE SUPERMARKET SALES DROPPED BY 12% IN VALUE VOLUME.
TABLE
PRESENTS THE REVISED TOTAL RETAIL DECEMBER 1990 AND THE PROVISIONAL FIGURE FOR JANUARY 1991.
SALES FIGURE FOR
IN
TABLE 2 SHOWS THE VALUE AND VOLUME INDEXES OF RETAIL SALES DECEMBER 1990 AND JANUARY 1991 (A) FOR ALL RETAIL TRADES, (B) BY MAJOR TRADE GROUPS AND (C) BY SELECTED TRADES (WHICH RELEVANT MAJOR TRADE GROUPS), WITH AVERAGE RETAIL SALES
COMPARISONS OF 1984 TO SEPTEMBER 1985 TAKEN AS 100. RESULTS WITH THOSE FOR DECEMBER 1990 AND WITH THOSE FOR JANUARY ARE ALSO GIVEN.
FORM PART OF THE OCTOBER FROM JANUARY 1991
1990
THE REPORT
JANUARY
1991
SURVEY GROUND
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ENQUIRIES ABOUT THE SURVEY RESULTS MAY BE WHOLESALE AND
TRADE STATISTICS SECTION RETAIL STATISTICS DEPARTMENT (TEL. NO.: 802 1258).
TO DIRECTED OF THE CENSUS
THE
AND
NOTE TO EDITORS:
TABLES 1 AND 2 WILL BE SENT BY FACSIMILE. COPIES CAN COLLECTED FROM THE GIS NEWSROOM.
ALSO BE
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