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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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