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TABLE 1

Total Retail Sales for March

THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1988

25

: TOTAL RETAIL SALES

1998 (Provisional Figure) = HK$7,885 million

for February 1988 (Revised Figure)

+ HK$8,437 million

TABLE 2: VALUE AND VOLUME INDEIES OF RETAIL SALES

FOR FEBRUARY 1988 AND MARCH 1988

Monthly average of Oct. 84

-

Sept. 85 =

1001

:

Index of }

¦ March

1988

March

1988: Jan.

Mar. 1988

[tes

Retail

Sales

1

February 1988

Harch 1989

compared with

compared with

compared with

+

Mar. 1987 |

(A) FOR ALL RETAIL TRADES

1

February 1968 ¦ March 1987 | Jan.

(Revised ¦ (Provisional ¦ Points 1 ¦ Paints 1

figures) 1 figures)

Points

: Value

Volune

150

LSL

#

141

130

121

-10

우우

-10

-}

(B) BY MAJOR TRADE BROUPS

1

Foodstuffs, alcoholic

Value

132

117

-14

drinks and tobacco

Volume

117

104

-13

==

==

-11

-S

:

XX

24

12

21 ¦ 29

11:

24

2

16

14

t

¦

i+

4 t

10

-

1

Fuels

Value

95

93

Volume

103

100

77

-2

+ *

Clothing, footwear

Value

184

136

-48

and allied products

Volume

157

114

-43

-26 1 -21:

27

10

-2

ON

-2 1

12 19

43

34

25

S2

22

Consumer durables

Value

152

145

Volume

125

120

**

41 28

24

31

27

1 16

15

IB

18

}

Other consumer goods

Value

162

141

2

-

42

17

31

Valune

138

136

+2

-2

27

25 1

23

21

(C) BY SELECTED TRADES

(see note 1 below)

Supermarkets

Value

176

142

-34

-19 ¦

15

Voluce

138

125

-33

-21:

5

12 } 21

44

15

10

В

#

Motor vehicles

Value

226

195

-31

-14

46

31 1 63

44

and parts

Volume

165

141

-24

-14:

21

18 ¦ 36

31

:

Consumer durables

Value

129

130

23

21

21

20

other than notor

Volume

113

113

14

14 ¦

13

13

vehicles and parts

Departuent stores

Value } Voluse

190

164

:

-26

-14

41

40

164

138

-26

-16 1 43

46 1

34

63

54

44

41

1

NOTES: 1. In order to analyse the sales of certain trades WITHIN major trade groups, the value and volume indexes

in respect of the following selected trades are compiled :

(a) "Supermarkets' - a trade in the "Foodstuffs, alcoholic drinks and tobacco' groep.

(b) "Motor vehicles and parts"

+

a trade in the "Consumer durables" group.

(c) "Consumer durables other than aotor vehicles and parts' - a trade in the "Consumer durables' group.

(d) "Department stores' a trade in the 'Other consumer goods' group,

2. Figures denating changes are derived from the unrounded index Figures.

3. *t* denotes change of less than 0.5.

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