Table 2 : Movement of Total Restaurant Receipts in Volume,
1st Quarter 2000 - 1st Quarter 2003





Year




Quarter

Original Series

Seasonally Adjusted Series

Year-on-year rate of
change(%)(1)

Quarter-to-quarter rate of
change(%)(2) (3)

2000

Q1

+6.3

+0.8

2000

Q2

+3.1

-0.4

2000

Q3

+2.4

+0.9

2000

Q4

+1.0

-0.2

2001

Q1

+0.3

-0.1

2001

Q2

-0.6

-1.1

2001

Q3

-4.4

-3.0

2001

Q4

-4.4

#

2002

Q1

-4.8

-0.8

2002

Q2

-4.8

-1.1

2002

Q3

-3.0

-1.1

2002

Q4

-4.4

-1.4

2003

Q1

-7.3*

-4.0*
Notes : * Provisional figures.
# Denotes change within -0.05 and +0.05.
  (1) Figures refer to percentage changes over the same quarter in the preceding year.
  (2) Figures refer to percentage changes over the preceding quarter.
  (3) Seasonally adjusted series may be revised as more data become available. For
restaurant receipts index, the seasonally adjusted series for the preceding three years
are revised each year when the figures for the first quarter become available.
  All figures in this table are 1999/2000-based.



Last updated: 16 May 2003