TUESDAY, JANUARY 5,
1993
TABLE 1: TOTAL RETAIL SALES
Total Retail Sales for October 1992 (Provisional Figure) = HK$13,492.9 million
for September 1992 (Revised Figure) = HK$13,927.8 million
TABLE 2: VALUE AND VOLUME INDEXES OF RETAIL SALES FOR SEPTEMBER 1992 AND OCTOBER 1992
(Monthly average of Oct. 89
Sept. 90 100)
1 tem
Index of Retail Sales
September
1992
October
1992
October 1992 October 1992 compared with compared with September 1992 October 1991
Jan-Oct 1992 compared with Jan-Oct 1991
(Revised
figures)
(Provisional
figures)
Points
Points *
Points *
(A) FOR ALL RETAIL OUTLETS
Value
148.3
143.7
Volume
129,5
124.8
-4.6 -3.1 -4.6
-3.6
+19.2 +15.4 +11.5 +10.1
+21.7 +18.5 +13.6 +12.5
(8) BY TYPE OF RETAIL OUTLET
Foodstuffs, alcoholic
drinks and tobacco
(other than
supermarkets)
Supermarkets
Value
Volume
123.3 99.5
121.2 101.5
-2.1 -1.7 +2.1 +2.1
-2.0 -1.6 -6.7 -6.2
+4.7 +4.1 -3.0 -3.0
Value
136.8
124.5
Volume
110.5
100.2
-12.3 -9.0 -10.4 -9.4
+9.2 +8.0 +0.7 *0.8
+11.9 +10.3 +1.9 +1.9
Fuels
Value
150.4
162.4
Volume
115.2
124.7
+12.0 +8.0 +9.6 +8.3
+29.7 +22.4 +16.3 +15.1
+13.5 +11.0
+3.8
+3.7
Clothing, footwear and
allied products
Value
149.7
160.2
Volume
123.9
130.8
+10.6 +7.1 +6.9 +5.6
+37.2 +30.2 +20.3 +18.4
+30.1 +25.2 +15.4 +13.9
Consumer durable goods *
Value
182.8
162.4
Volume
162.8
145.6
-20.4 -11.2 -17.2 -10.6
+25.4 +18.5 +19.2 +15.2
+38.8 +31.4 +30.4 +26.3
Motor vehicles
Value
234.2
182.8
-51.3 -21.9
+30.3 +19.8
+69.5 +57.0
and parts
Volume
196.1
152.9
-43.3 -22.1
+18.3 +13.6
+52.7 +48.0
Consumer durable
Value
145.7
147.7
goods other than
Volume
138.7
140.4
+2.0 +1.4 +1.6 +1.2
+21.8 +17.4 *19.8 +16.5
+16.6 +13.3
+14.3 +11.9
motor vehicles
and parts
Department stores
Value
125.0
129.9
Volume
105.0
107.5
+4.9 +3.9 +2.5 +2.4
+13.5 +11.6 +3.1 +3.0
+17.5 +15.7 +6.4 +6.2
Jewellery, watches
Value
146.6
135.7
- 10.9
and clocks, and
Volume
153.0
140.5
- 13.4
-7.4
-8.7
+17,5 +14,8
+20.0 +16.6
+21.0 +18.3 +26.0 +22.9
valuable gifts
Other consumer goods
Value
158.6
157.7
not elsewhere
Votume
135.6
134.2
-0.9 -0.6 -1.4 -1.1
+28.2 +21.8 +23.1 -19.0 +17.1 +14.6 +11.4 +9.9
classified
NOTE: * This covers both "Motor vehicles and parts" and "Consumer durable goods other than motor vehicles and parts".
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