TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1994
TABLE 1
F TOTAL RETAIL SALES
Total Retail Sales for Harch 1994 (Provisional Figure) = HK$15,854,9 million
for February 1994 (Revised Figure) - HK$15,233.6 million
TABLE 2
VALUE AND VOLUME INDICES OF RETAIL SALES FOR FEBRUARY 1994 AND MARCH 1994
(Honthly average of Oct. 89
Sept. 90 = 100)
Type of outlet
Index of Retail Sales
March
1994
March
1994
Jan.-Mar, 1994
February 1994
Karch
compared with
1994
February 1994
compared March
with
compared with
1993
Jan.-Mar. 1993
(Revised
figures)
(Provisionai
figures)
Points
Points
Points
X
(A) FOR ALL RETAIL OUTLETS
Value
162.2
168.8
+6.6
+4.1
+24.3
+16.8
+26.5 +17.9
Volume
132.7
138.9
+6.1
+13.6
+10.9]
+15.2
+11.9
(B) BY TYPE OF RETAIL OUTLET
Foodstuffs, alcoholic
drinks and tobacco
(other than
supermarkets)
Supermarkets
Value
127.2
129.4
+2.2
+1.8
+9.8
+8.2
+10.5
+8.7
Volume
95.5
100.8
+5.3
+5.6 +2.1
+2.1
+5.7 +5.9
Value
156.5
151.4
-5.1
-3.3
+18.3
Volume
116.7
110.7
-6.1
-5.2
+7.3
+13.7 +22.1
+7.1
+16.4
+10.4
+9.8
Fuels
Value
109.7
136.3
+26.6
+24.2 +7.8
+6.1
-2.7
-2.1
Volume
81.0
98.0
+17.0
+21.0
+3.2
+3.4
-4.5
-4.7
Clothing, footwear and
allied products
Value
208.0
219.1
+11.1
+5.4
+48.1 +28.1 +57.9 +31.4
Volume
162.5
171.8
+9.4
+5.8
+31.9
+22.8 +35.6
+23.4
Consumer durable goods
Value
181.8
187.2
+5.4
+3.0
+15.8
Volume
153.3
159.1
+5.8
+3.8 +8.6
+9.2 +5.7
+20.7 +12.4
+12.5
+8.5
-
Hotor vehicles and parts
Value
205.2
176.2
-29.0
-14.1
-5.6
-3.1
+3.0
+1.5
Volume
153.2
130.7
-22.4
-14.6
- 14.8
.10.2
+9.7 -6.2
Consumer durable goods other than motor vehicles and parts
Value
164.9
195.1
+30.3
Volume
153.4
179.7
+26.3
+18.4 +31.2 +19.1 +33.6 +17.21 +25.6 +16.6 +28.6
+22.8 +20.6
Department stores
Value
154.8
139.1
Volume
123,6
110.3
-15.7 -10.2 -10.7 -13.3
+20.5 +12.8
+17.3 +17.5 +12.2 +13.1 +7.6 +6.4
Jewellery, watches
Value
156.7
186.4
+29.7
and clocks, and
Volume
150.1
178.9
+28.8
+18,9 +30.9 +13.2 +19.2
+19.8 +8.0
+35.2 +18.1 +11.9
+24.6
valuable gifts
Other consumer goods
Value
167.4
177.3
+9.9
+5.9 +37.2
+26.6 +37.9 +26.0
not elsewhere
Volume
136.2
142.7
+6.5
*4.7 +26.2
+22.5 +27.0
+22.2
classified
NOTE: Not including supermarkets operating in department stores.
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