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RETAIL SALES OF CLOTHING, FOOTWEAR AND ALLIED PRODUCTS ROSE BY 8 PER CENT IN VALUE BUT DROPPED BY 2 PER CENT IN VOLUME. CONSUMER DURABLES DROPPED BY 2 PER CENT IN SALES VALUE AND 7 PER CENT IN SALES VOLUME.

OTHER CONSUMER GOODS WENT UP BY 5 PER CENT IN SALES VALUE AND REMAINED ALMOST UNCHANGED IN SALES VOLUME.

ANALYSED BY SELECTED TRADES, RETAIL SALES OF MOTOR VEHICLES AND PARTS INCREASED BY 17 PER CENT IN VALUE AND 10 PER CENT IN VOLUME. SALES BY SUPERMARKETS INCREASED BY 14 PER CENT IN VALUE AND 2 PER CENT IN VOLUME. SALES BY DEPARTMENT STORES ROSE BY 11 PER CENT

VALUE IN AND 1 PER CENT IN VOLUME. HOWEVER, CONSUMER DURABLES OTHER THAN MOTOR PER VEHICLES AND PARTS DECREASED BY 13 PER CENT IN SALES VALUE AND 16 CENT IN SALES VOLUME.

WHEN COMPARED WITH SEPTEMBER 1989, AND BEARING IN MIND THAT THIS COMPARISON MAY BE AFFECTED BY SEASONAL FACTORS. TOTAL RETAIL

FOR SALES

OCTOBER 1989 INCREASED BY 2 PER CENT IN BOTH VALUE AND VOLUME. FUELS ROSE BY 4 PER CENT IN BOTH SALES VALUE

VOLUME. AND FOODSTUFFS, ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND TOBACCO DECREASED BY 3 PER CENT IN SALES VALUE AND 2 PER CENT IN SALES VOLUME.

ON THE SAME BASIS OF COMPARISON, CLOTHING, FOOTWEAR AND ALLIED

INCREASED PRODUCTS

CENT BY 10 PER CENT IN SALES VALUE AND 9 PER

IN SALES VOLUME. CONSUMER DURABLES ROSE BY 2 PER CENT IN BOTH SALES VALUE AND VOLUME.

SALES OF OTHER CONSUMER GOODS WENT UP BY 3 PER CENT IN VALUE AND 2 PER CENT IN VOLUMB.

ANALYSED BY SELECTED TRADES, SALES BY DEPARTMENT STORES ROSE BY 18 PER CENT IN VALUE AND 16 PER CENT IN VOLUME. OTHER THAN MOTOR VEHICLES AND PARTS INCREASED BY 2 PER CENT SALES VALUE AND VOLUME. MOTOR VEHICLES AND PARTS WENT UP BY 2 PER CENT IN SALES VALUE AND 1 PER CENT IN SALES VOLUME. SALES BY SUPERMARKETS

BY DECREASED

VALUE 10 PER CENT AND 11 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY IN VOLUME.

CONSUMER

DURABLES

IN

BOTH

AND

TABLE 1 PRESENTS THE REVISED TOTAL RETAIL SALES FIGURE FOR SEPTEMBER 1989 AND THE PROVISIONAL FIGURE FOR OCTOBER 1989.

MAJOR

OF OCTOBER

THE

TABLE 2 SHOWS THE VALUE AND VOLUME INDEXES OF RETAIL SALES IN

(B) BY AND OCTOBER 1989 (A) FOR ALL RETAIL TRADES, SEPTEMBER TRADE

FORM PART GROUPS AND (C) BY SELECTED TRADES (WHICH RELEVANT MAJOR TRADE GROUPS), WITH AVERAGE RETAIL SALES FROM 1984 TO SEPTEMBER 1985 TAKEN AS 100.

COMPARISONS OF OCTOBER 1989 RESULTS WITH THOSE FOR SEPTEMBER SALES 1989 AND WITH THOSE FOR OCTOBER 1988, AND COMPARISONS OF RETAIL IN THE FIRST 10 MONTHS OF 1989 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1988, GIVEN.

ARE ALSO

THE

IS

SURVEY

REPORT CONTAINING THE ANALYSIS OF THE OCTOBER 1989 RESULTS

AT ON SALE

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ENQUIRIES

ABOUT THE

SURVEY RESULTS MAY BE

TO

THE

AND

DIRECTED WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TRADE STATISTICS SECTION OF THE CENSUS STATISTICS DEPARTMENT (TEL. 55652401.

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