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FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1990

TABLE 1 : TOTAL RETAIL SALES

Total Retail Sales for February 1996 (Provisional Figure! = HK$ 8,732million for January 1990 (Revised Figure) = HK$10,591m; [Tion

TABLE 2

VALUE AND VOLUME INDEXES OF RETAIL SALES FOR JANUARY 1990 AND FEBRUARY 1990

(Monthly average of Oct. 84 - Sept. 95 = 100)

Index of

item

Retail

:

Sales

:

January

1990

February 1990

¦ February 1990 ¦ February 1990 1 compared with 1 compared with ! January 1990 February 1989 ¦ Jan.-Feb. 1989 1

Jan.-Feb. 1990 | compared with

(Revised ¦ (Provisional Points

figures! 1 +igures)

I ¦ Points

1 Points

I ¦

: (A) FOR ALL RETAIL TRADES

: (B) BY MAJOR TRADE BROUPS

Value

189

156

-33

-18

-3

-2

Volume

144

117

-26

+18

-10

-8

1

1

Foodstuffs, alcoholic

Value

drinks and tobacco

Volume

Fuels

Value

:

Volume

I

Clothing, footwear

:

Value

and allied products

Voluse

Consuser durables

Value

¦

Volume

ཤྰཎྜ ཀྭའུ ཁྐྲ EE

175

1

134

+38

-22 ¦

134

104

-22 |

ལག

-2

-2 1

+12

-6

+2

+2 ¦

121

•

75

-26

-21 1

+15

+18

+18

+20 F

115

68

-27

-23 1

+3

+5

46 1

242

186

-56

173

134

-39

22

-23:

-9

-1

-23

-16

-10

-10

160

-11

-15

: 8-

-25

-13

118

-11

-9

-13

-10

-22

-15

|

Other consuser goods

Value

203

167

-37

-18 1

-3

-2 1

-5

-2

Volume

154

125

-28

-18

-LL

-8

-12

¦ 8-

! (C) BY SELECTED TRADES

Isee note I below)

Supermarkets

Value

738

162

-}}

-32

-}

T

+27

+16

Voluse

178

119

-57

-33

-17

-12

+8

+6

Motor vehicles

Value

261

312

+51

+19 ¦

-62

-17 1

and parts

Volume

168

200

+32

+19

-53

-21

77

-43

-25

-74

-29

Consumer durables

Value

143

114

-29

-21:

other than actor vehicles and parts

Volume

[17

93

-24

-21

-2

**

!

Department stores

Value

322

218

-103

-32

+17

+25

+10 |

Volume

234

159

A

-75

-32

+3

+2

+7

+4

NOTES: L. 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 in the 'Foodstuffs, alcoholic drinks and tobacco" group. (b) "Motor vehicles and parts" - a trade in the "Consuser durables" group.

(c) "Consumer durables other than motor vehicles and parts"

-

-

a trade in the "Consuser 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. *I* denotes a figure within ±0.5.

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