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TABLE 1: TOTAL RETAIL SALES

Total Retail Sales for July 1996 (Provisional Figure) = HK$18,259.6 million

for June 1996 (Revised Figure)

HK$17,492.5 million

TABLE 2

8 _VALUE_AND_VOLUME INDICES OF RETAIL SALES FOR JULY 1995, JUNE AND JULY 1996

(Monthly average of October 1994

September 1995 = 100)

Index Number

* Change

Type

Type of Outlets

of

July

June

July

Index

1995

1996

1996

(Revised

(Revised

(Provisional

Jul 1996 compared with

Jul 1996 compared with

-

Jan Jul 1996

compared with

figures)

figures)

figures)

Jun 1996

Jul 1995

Jan

Jul 1995

(Point)

(Point)

(Point)

(X)

(X)

(X)

(A) FOR ALL RETAIL OUTLETS

Vatue

101.7

100.7

108.8

+8.0

+6.9

+5.6

Volume

100.4

94.4

103.0

+9.1

+2.6

+0.7

(B) BY TYPE OF RETAIL OUTLETS

Food, alcoholic drinks

and tobacco (other

than supermarkets)

Supermarkets

Value

99.6

102.2

104.7

+2.4

+5.0

+7.6

Volume

99.1

96.8

99.4

+2.7

+0.3

+2.5

Value

106.0

$16.3

113.4

-2.5

+7.0

+8.5

Volume

103.6

107.8

104.3

-3.2

+0.7

+1.7

Fuels

Value

114.1

106.3

103.8

-2.3

-9.0

+0,4

Volume

112.3

96.6

94.5

-2.2

-15.8

-6.7

Clothing, footwear and

Value

108.2

100.6

113.8

+13.1

+5.2

+11.5

allied products

Volume

106.0

89.2

104.6

+17.3

-1.3

+3.8

Consumer durable goods.

Value

81.5

92.0

96.9

+5.2

+18.8

#

Volume

81.2

90.9

95.6

+5.1

+17.6

-0.7

=

Motor vehicles

Value

76.7

81.3

102.9

+26.6

+34.2

-10.5

and parts

Volume

76.6

80.8

101.6

+25.7

+32.5

-10.6

+

Consumer durable

Value

84.5

98.5

93.2

-5.4

+10.4

+6.0

goods other than

Volume

84.0

97.0

92.0

-5.2

+9.4

+4,8

motor vehicles

and parts

Department stores

Value

102.8

101.5

104.5

+2.9

+1.7

+3.5

Volume

101.4

92.8

98.5

+6.1

-2.9

-1.7

Jewellery, watches

Value

94.5

96.6

98.8

+2.3

+4.6

+1.0

and clocks, and

Volume

92.4

93.1

95.A

+2.8

+3.7

-3.2

valuable gifts

Other consumer goods

Value

116.9

101.6

128.7

+26.6

+10.1

+9.7

not elsewhere

Volume

116.6

96.0

122.1

+27.2

+4.7

+4.8

classified

NOTE: Not Including supermarkets operating in department stores.

# denotes a figure within ±0.05.

The underlined figures were rounded up to 5.

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