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SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1991

TABLE I : TOTAL RETAIL SALES

1991 (Provisional Figure) = HK$10,016 million

Total Retail Sales for Karch

for February 1991 (Revised figure}

WE$18,607 alltion

TABLE 2: VALUE AND YOLUMB INDRIES OF RETAIL SALES

POR FEREUARY 1991 AND MARCH 1991

(Monthly average of Oct. 14

-

Sept. 05

=

100)

Iten

1 Index of │Retail | Sales

| Harch 1991 | March

1991 | Jan.-Mar. 1991 |

February 1991

March 1991

1

I compared with | compared with compared with

February 1991 | March

1990 | Jan.-Mar. 1998 |

(Revised | {Provisional |

figures) I figures)

Points

Points

1

Points

| (3) FOR ALL HETAIL TRADES

| Value

198

119

-11

+11

+15

Tolume

133

125

+1

| |D) BY MAJOR TRADE GROUPA

Foodstuffs, alcoholic | Value

114

177

-]

1

drinks and tobacco

❘ folune

126

121

* 2

འབ

+10

+12

+3 | +3

1

I

Puela

| Value

131

15#

+27

+21 |

+34

#

| Tolue

ILT

+21

+12

+12 1

==

I

Clothing, footwear

| Yajue

240

109

-59

-24 |

+1+

+6 |

+21

+10

and allied product.

| Tolane

165

125

-40

+

Consumer durables

* Talue

151

175

+24

+16

+18 |

+4

+2

| Tolue

10

121

+13

+12 |

+4

+1 |

-1

1

Other connumer goods

| Value

207

101

-25

-12 |

+15

}

t Volune

147

130

-LO

-12 1

-}

-2 |

+)

| (C) BT SELECTED TRADES

1

(ree note 1 below)

Saperbarkets

│Value

219

: Volume

167

:

Motor vehicles

and parts

Consumer durables

| Value

113

| Volume

125

Value

112

other than notor vehicles and parts

| Yolupe

102

22 22 23

234

154

305

176

+51

22 SA

-15

-6 |

+27

+1)

+21

+14 |

-13

-

+3 |

+91

+19

-20

-5

-}

-12

-11

135

+1

02 1

+15

+13 |

+14

+11

+2

+5

+5 1

Department stores

| Value

Volone

264 170

209 140

-55

-21

-}#

-22 1

7

NOTES: 1. In order to analyse the sales of certain trades WITHIN major trade groups, the value and volune indezen

in respect of the following selected trades are compiled :

(a) "Supermarketu" – a trade to the "Foodstuffs, alcoholic drinko and tobacco" group.

[b] "Hotor vehicles and parts" - a trade in the "Consumer durables" group.

(c) "Consumer durables other than motor vehicles and partu" – a trade in the "Consumer durables" group. (0) "Department stores a trade in the "Other consumer goods" group.

3. Pigures denoting changes are derived from the rounded index figures. 3. "I" denotes a figure within 10.5.

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