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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1989

TABLE ! = TOTAL RETAIL SALES

Total Retail Sales for September1989 (Provisional Figure) = HK$ 8,786million For August 1989 (Revised Figure) = HK$ 8,921million

TABLE 2 : VALUE AND VOLUME INDEXES OF RETAIL SALES

FOR AUGUST 1989

AND SEPTEMBER 1989

▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬➖ ➖➖ ➖

Monthly average of Det. 84 - Sept. 85 = 100)

!

Index of

#

Iten

Retail

1

Sales

# August

1989

¦ September 1989 ¦ + September 1 compared with ¦

1989 1 August 1909

September 1989 |

Jan.-Šap. 1989 1

compared with September 1988 |

compared with I Jas.-Sep. 1988

¦ IRevised

figures)

(Provisional ! Points

Points

1:

Points

1

| figures)

1 (A) FOR ALL RETAIL TRADES

t

#

1

1

Value

139

Volume

124

GE

157

¦

10

$21

-2

: (B) BY HAJOR TRADE GROUPS

}

:

t

Foodstuffs, alcoholic

}

Value

146

163

18

12 1

20

drinks and tobacco

Volume

154

126

12

10:

ח -

14 1 10

5 1

5

:

|

Feels

Value

119

121

Volume

120

સમ

2

14

13 1

2 1

2

2 1

Clothing, Footwear

Valbe

159

156

-

-1

14

and allied products

Voluse

114

113

-3

-17

ས

-2

Consuer durables

Value

154

142

Volume

117

106

Other consumer goods

1 Value

176

145

Valune

137

128

93 38

-12

-19

-10

-20

-16 ¦

-10

3 +

10

-7

-2

¦ (C) BY SELECTED TRADES

Isee note i below)

Supersartets

:

:

:

Value

194

212

18

29

21

13

Volume

149

162

13

T

2 |

}

I

:

Motor vehicles

Value

267

27t

}

-12

-

50

21:

and parts

Vologe

177

178

-21

23

13

1

Consumer durables

Value

119

103

-17

-21

-17 ¦

-16

-12:

other than sotor

Volume

93

84

-10

-14

-19

-19 |

-17

-16 1

vehicles and parts

1

}

Department stores

Value

210

176

-42

-19

16

10 1

20

11

Volume

163

129

-34

-21 1

1

2

2

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

in respect of the following selected trades are compiled :

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

(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. "a" denotes a figure within 10.5.

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