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TABLE 1

A TOTAL RETAIL SALES

Total Retail Sales for February 1997 (Provisional Figure) = HK$17,914.1 million

for January 1997 (Revised Figure) = HK$22,268.9 million

TABLE 2: VALUE AND VOLUME INDICES OF RETAIL SALES FOR FEBRUARY 1996, JANUARY AND FEBRUARY 1997

(Monthly average of October 1994

September 1995 = 100)

Index Number

X Change

Type

Type of Outlets

of

Index

February 1996 (Revised

January

1997

(Revised

figures)

figures)

February

1997 (Provisional

figures)

Feb 1997 compared with

Feb 1997

Jan

-

compared with

Jan 1997

Feb 1996

Jan

T

Feb 1997 compared with

Feb 1996

(Point)

(Point)

(Point)

(X)

(X)

(X)

(A) FOR ALL RETAIL DUTLETS

Vatue

106.4

128.3

103.2

-19.6

-3.1

+6.6

Volume

103.1

119.8

96.3

-19.6

-6.6

+2.5

(B) BY TYPE OF RETAIL OUTLETS

Food, alcoholic drinks

Value

105.0

112.4

103.9

-7.5

-1.1

+3.0

and tobacco (other

Volume

99.4

109.1

96.2

-11.9

-3.3

+0.2

than supermarkets)

Supermarkets

Value

120.0

112.3

119.B

+6.6

-0.2

+5.9

Volume

114.5

100.5

108.6

+8.0

-5.2

+0.1

Fuels

Value

84.4

106.4

89.8

-15.6

46.4

+9.2

Volume

80.5

94.4

79.1

-16.2

-1.7

+1.3

Clothing, footwear and

allied products

Value

105.4

153.3

95.5

-37.7

+9.4

+4.3

Volume

103.6

136.3

B5.7

-37.1

-17.3

-4.1

Consumer durable goods

Value

92.9

122.2

93.4

-23.6

+0.6

+12.3

Volume

92.3

120.2

91.3

-24.1

-1.1

+11.0

Motor vehicles

Value

68.8

129.5

69.6

-46.2

+1.2

+38.2

and parts

Volume

68.3

128.3

68.9

-46.3

+1.0

+37.8

-

Consumer durable

Value

107.4

117.8

107.7

-8.6

+0.3

+2.1

goods other than

Volume

106.9

115.3

104.8

-9.1

-1.9

+0.4

motor vehicles

and parts

Department stores

Value

125.4

$24.9

113.0

-9.6

+9.9

-0.7

Volume

123.6

114.2

103.6

-9.3

-16.2

-7.2

Jewellery, watches

Value

117.8

136.4

110.1

-19.3

-6.6

+6.4

and clocks, and valuable gifts

Volume

111.1

134.3

109.1

-18.7

-1.7

+10.4

Other consumer goods

not elsewhera

Vatue Volume

95.5

128.1

100.B

-21.3

+5.6

+12.4

92.3

117.6

92.6

-21.3

+0.3

+6.5

classified

MOTE 1: The figures for "supermarkets" above do not include sales in supermarkets operating in department stores.

Below are supplementary statistics covering both.

J

Supermarkets and

Value

122.8

113.t

120.9

supermarkets operating in Volume department stores

117.2

101.3

109.6

+6.9 +8.2

-1.6

+5.3

-6.5

-0.5

NOTE 2: The underlined figures were rounded up to 5.

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