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TABLE 1 # TOTAL RETAIL SALES

Total Retail Sales for February 1996 (Provisional Figure) = HK$18,517.2 million

for January 1996 (Revised Figure)

HK$19,224.2 million

TABLE 2: VALUE AND VOLUME INDICES OF RETAIL SALES FOR FEBRUARY 1995, JANUARY AND FEBRUARY 1996

(Monthly average of Oct 89 Sept 90 = 100)

Index Number

* Change

Туре

Type of Outlet

of

February

Index

1995 (Revised

January

1996

February

(Revised

1996 (Provisional

figures)

figures)

figures)

Feb 1996 compared with Jan 1996

Feb 1996 Jan compared with Feb 1995

Jan

Feb 1996 compared with Feb 1995

(Point)

(Point)

(Point)

(X)

(*)

(X)

(A) FOR ALL RETAIL OUTLETS

Value

163.1

204.7

197.2

-3.7

+20.9

+4.9

Volume

125.8

149.3

143.4

-3.9

+14.0

-0.9

(B) BY TYPE OF RETAIL OUTLETS

Food, alcoholic drinks

and tobacco (other

than supermarkets)

Supermarkets

Value

122.5

146.9

146.9

+19.9

+7.6

Volume

88.2

105.6

99.0

-6.3

+12.2

+4.2

Value

134.0

164.

198.6

+21,0

+48.2

+9.5

Volume

91.4

105.1

127.0

+20.8

+38.9

+1.4

fuels

Value

119.2

154.3

136.8

-11.4

+14.8

+9.8

Volume

81.0

98.3

87.1

-11.4

+7.5

+2.2

Clothing, footwear and

allied products

Value

195.6

376.5

296.0

-20.9

+52.3

+16.2

Volume

136.0

236.4

191.3

- 19.1

+40.6

+6.3

Consumer durable goods

Value

189.5

166.2

156.7

-5.7

-17.3

-15.3

Volume

148.2

134.4

127.7

-4.9

- 13.8

-13.8

J

Motor vehicles

Value

225.1

113.2

105.5

-8.6

-54.0

-45.8

and parts

Volume

151.4

74.2

68.0

-8.4

+55.1

-47,4

·

Consumer durable

Value

163.8

204.6

195.2

-4.6

+19.2

+8.9

goods other than

Volume

145.9

177.9

170.9

-3.9

+17.2

+6.2

motor vehicles

and parts

Department stores

Value

142.7

182.0

199.9

+9.8

+40.1

+5.5

Volume

103.4

121.5

135.1

+11.2

+30.7

-2.1

Jewellery, watches

Value

174.2

202.1

209.3

+3.6

+20.2

+3.7

and clocks, and

Volume

166.2

182.9

185.4

+1.4

+11.5

-2.6

valuable gifts

Other consumer goods

Vatue

186.7

249.0

221.3

-11.1

+18.6

+12.5

not elsewhere

Votume

144.1

185.2

162.5

- 12.3

+12.7

+7.5

classified

NOTE: Not including supermarkets operating in department stores.

# denotes a figure within 10.05.

The underlined figure was rounded up to 5.

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