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TABLE 1

TOTAL RETAIL SALES

Total Retail Sales for May

for April 1996 (Revised figure)

1996 (Provisional Figure) » HK$17,837.1 million

HK$16,827.5 million

TABLE 2 = VALUE AND VOLUME INDICES OF RETAIL SALES FOR NAY 1995. APRIL AND MAY 1996

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(Monthly average of Oct 94 Sept 95 = 100)

Index Number

X Change

Туре

Type of Outlet

of

May

April

Index

1995

1996

May 1996

(Revised

(Revised

(Provisional

figures)

figures)

figures)

May 1996 compared with Apr 1996

May 1996 compared with

G

Jan May 1996

compared

with

May 1995

Jan

May 1995

(Point)

(Point)

(Point)

(X)

(X)

(X)

(A) FOR ALL RETAIL OUTLETS

Value

98.2

96.9

102.7

+6.0

+4.7

+5.3

Volume

96.4

91.4

96.3

+5.3

-0.1

+0.3

(B) BY TYPE OF RETALL OUTLETS

Food, alcoholic drinks

and tobacco (other

than supermarkets)

Supermarkets

Value

101.7

110.6

110.2

-0.4

+8.3

+8.4

volume

103.7

102.6

106.6

+3.8

+2.8

+3.4

Value

97.3

98.8

106.0

+7.3

+8.9

+8.6

Volume

96.1

92.1

98.7

+7.1

+2.6

+1.6

Fuels

Value

104.7

99.2

104.6

+5.4

-0.1

Volume

103.0

91.3

95.2

+4.3

-7.6

-2.8

Clothing, footwear and

allied products

Value

107.3

102.6

117.2

+14.2

+9.2

+13.4

Volume

101.9

92.9

102.9

+10.8

+1.0

+5.2

Consumer durable goods

Value

92.0

97.9

96.7

-1.2

+5.0

-3.7

Volume

91.4

97.0

95,5

-1.5

+4.5

-4.4

Motor vehicles

Value

78.5

79.7

86.0

+7.9

+9.5

-19.6

and parts

Volume

78.2

79.0

85.4

+8.1

+9.2

-19.5

Consumer durable

Value

100.2

108.9

103.1

-5.2

+2.9

+5.7

goods other than

Volume

99.4

107.9

101.6

-5.8

+2.2

+4.4

motor vehicles

and parts

Department stores

Value

97.0

86.1

94.5

+9.8

-2.5

+2.4

Volume

93.4

80.3

26.3

+7.5

-7.6

-2.9

Jewellery, watches

Value

98.2

84.8

95.2

+12.2

-3.1

+0.5

and clocks, and

Volume

96.7

81.1

91.6

+13.0

-5.2

-4.6

valuable gifts

Other consumer goods

Value

92.8

99.6

100.5

+0.9

+8.3

+10.2

not elsewhere

Volume

92.4

95.1

95.4

+0.3

+3.3

+5.5

classified

NOTE : Not including supermarkets operating in department stores.

The underlined figures were rounded up to 5.

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