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THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1990

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TABLE 1 : TOTAL RETAIL SALES

Total Retail Sales for December 1989 (Provisional Figure) = HK$10,049million for November 1989 (Revised Figure) - HK$ 8,826million

TABLE 2: VALUE AND VOLUME INDEXES OF RETAIL SALES

FOR NOVEMBER 1989 AND DECEMBER 1989

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

Index of :

Ites

:

Retail ¦

}

Sales

November A December

1989

1969

¦ December 1989 : 1 compared with ¦

November 1989 :

December 1989 Jan.-Dec. 1989 : compared with ¦ December 1988;

compared with Jas.-Dec. 1988

(Revised

(Provisional

Points

Points

I ¦

Points

¦

figures) ¦ figures)

¦ LA FOR ALL RETAIL TRADES

Value Volume

:

158

179

22

14:

120

135

#

15

13

5 T

4 19

-1

1

(B) BY MAJOR TRADE GROUPS

Foodstuffs, alcoholic

Value

154

drinks and tobacco

Volune

121

Fuels

Value

117

:

Voluse

114

22 28

167

13

12 :

18

131

ܩ

8 1

41

130

124

12

13

17

16 1

10

10

10

2!

M

2 !

:

Clothing, Footwear

Valve

181

and allied products

: Voluce

124

:

Consumer durables

: Value

147

Volume

$10

Other consumer goods

Value

165

Voiuee

124

62 29 25

237

56

311

20

162

38

30 1

RN

9

12

7 1

-3

-2

154

7

5

-16

-9

-3

117

7

-16

-12

-10

do de

192

27

16:

1

↓

В

142

18

15 !

-}

-5

-

(C) BY SELECTED TRADES

I

Isee note 1 below)

:

Supermarkets

1

1

Value

171

207

Volume

129

155

**

36

21:

26

14

22

14 1

26

20:

Motor vehicles

and parts

Value

263

230

-33

¦ Voluse

171

:

149

88

-13 |

-29

-1| |

31

13

-22

-13:

-28

-16 1

10

:

H

1

Consumer durables

Valve

12

131

20

18 1

other than sotor vehicles and parts

Voluce

91

107

16

སྡཝ

-12

-8

-16

-12

-12

-10

-16

-15 1

|

Department stores

Value

220

287

LT

30 1

17 1

21

11

Volume

154

200

16

30

15

3

2 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 is the "Foodstuffs, alcoholic drinks and tobacco" group.

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

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

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

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

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