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TABLE TUTAL RETAIL SALES

Total Retail Sales for October 1996 (Provisional Figure) » HK$8,794 million

for September 1989 (Revised Figure)

HK$9,600 sillion

TABLE 2 1 VALUE AND VOLUME INDEXES OF RETAIL SALES

FOR SEPTEMBER 1988 AND OCTOBER 1998

Monthly average of Oct. 84 - Sept. 83 = 100)

|

Index of

1 October 1988

Iten

Retail Sales

¦ September : October

1988

1988

1 compared with ¦ September 1989 |

October 1998 Jan.-Oct. 1988: compared with 1 compared with October 1987 | Jan.-Oct. 1987 !

1 (Revised ¦ Provisional ¦ Points

figures) ¦ figures)

! Paints

1

Points I

* (A) FOR ALL RETAIL TRADES

Valum

154

157

2 1

Volume

124

127

2

#=

23

27

14

£2

22

13

(B) BY MAJOR TRADE GROUPS

|

Foodstuffs, alcoholic

Value

144

143

28

23

11

10

drinks and tobacco

:

Volume ¦

119

1

:

Fuels

}

Value

107

Valuse

116

Clothing, footwear

#

Value

163

and allied products

Votuse

130

Consumer durables

Value

1&1

!

Voluse

126

ཊྛ -སྶ བཏྭཱ སྶ

121

1 ¦

15

14

111

13

121

16

15

LA DO

147

3

20

21

131

$ 1

13

143

127

1

E%

30

15

23 22

23

26

20

13

12

11

Other consuper goods

Value

Voluse :

25

161

167

19

13

131

135

22

39

32

22

(C) BY SELECTED TRADES

(se note 1 below)

Supermarkets

Valus

183

: Voluse :

155

35

164

: -20

21

137

-17

-11

5

**

15

22

6

4

7

Motor vehicles

Value

283

299

16

104

54:

and parts

Voluse

199

210

10

62

42

BA

68

39

37

27

Consumer durables

Valge

123

12:

other than astor

Volume

103

101

AA

В

13

11

1

5

vehicles and parts

Departeent stores

t

J

Value Volume

161

121

EB

20

194

13

21:

40

26

153

25

20

15 1

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MOTES | 1. In order to analyse the sales of certain trades WITHIN major trade groups, the value and volume İnderes

in respect of the following selected trades are compiled I

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

(b) "Motor vehicles and parts* - a trade in the "Consumer durables" group.

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

[d} "Department stores" a trade in the "Other consumer goods" group.

2. Figures denoting changes are derived from the unrounded index figures.

3. *** denotes a figure within 10.5.

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