XN000022-1991-07-01 — Page 4

3

MONDAY, JULY 1, 1991

J

FUELS

ANALYSED BY TYPE OF RETAIL OUTLET, SALES OF RETAIL OUTLETS FOR INCREASED BY 28.5% IN VALUE AND 11.1% IN VOLUME IN APRIL 1991 COMPARED WITH APRIL 1990.

SALES OF RETAIL OUTLETS FOR CONSUMER DURABLE GOODS ROSE BY 24.6% IN VALUE AND 18.3% IN VOLUME, WITHIN THIS GROUP, SALES OF DEALERS IN MOTOR VEHICLES AND PARTS INCREASED BY 13.9% IN VALUE AND 5.0% IN VOLUME, WHILE SALES OF RETAIL OUTLETS FOR OTHER CONSUMER DURABLE GOODS ROSE BY 32.7% IN VALUE AND 28.1% IN VOLUME.

SALES OF RETAIL OUTLETS FOR FOODSTUFFS, ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND TOBACCO (OTHER THAN SUPERMARKETS) INCREASED BY 22.7% IN VALUE 10.2% IN VOLUME.

AND

SALES OF RETAIL OUTLETS FOR JEWELLERY, WATCHES AND CLOCKS, AND VALUABLE GIFT WENT UP BY 14.3% IN VALUE AND 11.3% IN VOLUME.

SUPERMARKET

VOLUME.

AS

SALES INCREASED BY 13.8% IN VALUE AND BY 3.3% IN

REGARDS RETAIL OUTLETS FOR CLOTHING, FOOTWEAR AND ALLIED PRODUCTS, SALES WENT UP BY 12.0% IN VALUE AND 5.5% IN VOLUME.

SALES IN DEPARTMENT STORES INCREASED BY 6.5% IN VALUE AND 1.1% IN VOLUME.

SALES OF THE RETAIL OUTLETS FOR OTHER CONSUMER GOODS NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED, HOWEVER, DROPPED BY 2.7% IN VALUE AND 6.7% IN VOLUME.

COMPARING THE PERIOD JANUARY TO APRIL 1991 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1990, TOTAL RETAIL SALES ROSE BY 10.2% IN VALUE AND 3.1% IN VOLUME.

COMPARING WITH MARCH 1991, AND BEARING IN MIND THAT THIS COMPARISON MAY BE AFFECTED BY SEASONAL FACTORS, TOTAL RETAIL SALES FOR APRIL 1991 DECREASED BY 0.4% IN VALUE AND 1.5% IN VOLUME.

MARCH

TABLE 1 PRESENTS THE REVISED TOTAL RETAIL SALES FIGURE FOR 1991 AND THE PROVISIONAL FIGURE FOR APRIL 1991.

TABLE 2 SHOWS THE VALUE AND VOLUME INDEXES OF RETAIL SALES IN MARCH AND APRIL 1991 FOR ALL RETAIL OUTLETS AND BY TYPE OF RETAIL OUTLET, WITH AVERAGE RETAIL SALES FROM OCTOBER 1989 TO SEPTEMBER 1990 TAKEN AN 100.

COMPARISONS OF APRIL 1991 RESULTS WITH THOSE FOR MARCH 1991 AND WITH THOSE FOR APRIL 1990, AND COMPARISONS OF RETAIL SALES IN THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 1991 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1990 ARE ALSO GIVEN.

1

THE REPORT CONTAINING THE ANALYSIS OF THE APRIL 1991 RESULTS, A TABLE PRESENTING THE TOTAL RETAIL SALES AND THE NEW RETAIL SALES INDEX SERIES FROM 1986 TO APRIL 1991 AND A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RRBASING AND OTHER CHANGES, 15 NOW ON SALE AT THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE, GROUND FLOOR, GPO BUILDING, CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL, AT $1.50 PER COPY,

ENQUIRIES ABOUT THE SURVEY RESULTS MAY BE WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TRADE STATISTICS SECTION OF STATISTICS DEPARTMENT (TEL. NO, : 802 [258).

DIRECTED то THE THE CENSUS AND

/TABLE 1: