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TABLE L # TOTAL RETAIL SALES

FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1988

Total Retail Sales for April for March

1989 (Provisional Figure) = H57,747 million 1989 (Revised Figure) HK$7,885 Million

TABLE 2 :

VALUE AND VOLUME INDEXES OF RETAIL SALES FOR MARCH 19838 AND APRIL 1988

Monthly average of Oct. 84

Sept. 95 = 100)

Index of

¦ April

1988

Iten

}

Retail Sales

March 1988

April

1 compared with ¦

April 1988 | Jan. - Apr. 1988 ¦ compared with ¦ compared with

-

1908

¦ March 1988 April 1987 ¦ Jan. - Apr. 1987 ¦

(Revised

Provisional Points

Points 1

Points

1

: figura! # figures)

: TAI FOR ALL RETAIL TRADES

:

:

¦ (0) BY MAJOR TRADE GROUPS

Foodstuffs, alcoholic

Value

+

Volume

¦

22

141

138

121

118

23: 23

13

13

15

==

24

14

— — —▬▬▬▬ ▬▬▬▬▬▬

:

112

113

drinks and tobacco

Voluce

104

T↑

-10

-2

Fuels

Valen

93

88

Volque

100

74

La di

ó d

-51 -10

-10 |

T

-|

!

!

Clothing, footwear

Value

136

145

10

T

13

10 :

35

4

78

and allied products

Volume

114

117

J

I

t

19

14

:

Consumer durables

:

Value

145

146

1

Valuse

19

22

28

23 1

30

26

15

14:

17

17

Other consumer goods

Valor

161

155

48

40

34

!

Voluce

136

128

31

33 1

23

24

: (C) BY SELECTED TRADES

H

isen note 1 below!

#

Supermarkets

| Value

Volume

Motor vehicles

and parts

Value

194

Volusn

140

Consumer durables

Value

+

other than antor

Volcan

CR E# 83

142

132

-10

-7

10

10

14

1

125

LIS

-10

| 8-

7

1

209

14

42

25

149

6 ¦ 16

S

12:

€1

SA

39

#

30

26

1

1

130

127

113

110

-2 1 23

-2 ! 14

22 1 22

20

J

15 1 13

13

vehicles and parts

Departeent stores

:

Value

164

163

-1

: Volume t

138

133

: -5

-3 |

$=

60

58:

$2

35

44 1 43

**

NOTES: ..

In order to analyse the sales of certain trades WITHIN major trade groupe, the value and volume indexes in respect of the following selected trades are compiled a

(a) "Supermarkets" - a trade is the "Foodstuffs, alcoholle drinks and tobacco" group.

(b) "Motor vehicles and parte" a trade in the "Consueer durables' group,

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

(d) "Department stores" - a trade in the "Other consumer goods" group.

2. Figures donating changes are derived from the unrounded vndes figures.

"1" denotes change of less than 0.5.

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