Table 1: Value index and value of retail sales by type of retail outlet for July and August 2003 |
| Type of retail outlet | Value Index of |
Value of Retail Sales |
Percentage Change |
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Jul 2003 |
Aug 2003 |
Jul 2003 |
Aug 2003 |
Jul 2003 over Jul 2002 | Aug 2003 over Aug 2002 | Jan - Aug 2003 over Jan - Aug 2002 |
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| All retail outlets | 94.3 |
94.8 |
14,633 |
14,720 |
- 2.5 |
+1.2 |
-5.3 |
|
By type of retail outlet |
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| Food, alcoholic drinks and tobacco (other than supermarkets) | 92.5 |
102.7 |
1,638 |
1,819 |
-1.0 |
+5.7 |
-2.0 |
|
| - Fish, livestock and poultry, fresh or frozen | 92.9 |
101.0 |
534 |
580 |
+1.4 |
+3.6 |
+0.6 |
|
| - Fruits and vegetables, fresh | 70.8 |
71.6 |
160 |
162 |
-13.7 |
-10.9 |
-10.4 |
|
| - Bread, pastry, confectionery and biscuits | 101.5 |
132.1 |
318 |
414 |
-0.1 |
+21.0 |
+3.4 |
|
| - Other foodstuffs | 96.9 |
101.9 |
480 |
505 |
+2.6 |
+5.2 |
+0.1 |
|
| - Alcoholic drinks and tobacco | 90.7 |
97.9 |
146 |
158 |
-7.0 |
+0.3 |
-19.7 |
|
| Supermarkets * | 104.7 |
104.4 |
2,162 |
2,158 |
-1.4 |
-1.7 |
-0.3 |
|
| Fuels | 80.0 |
74.3 |
521 |
483 |
-6.1 |
-5.9 |
-10.4 |
|
| Clothing, footwear and allied products | 95.1 |
87.0 |
1,913 |
1,751 |
-9.5 |
-1.6 |
-12.1 |
|
| - Wearing apparel | 95.1 |
82.4 |
1,637 |
1,418 |
-10.1 |
-1.7 |
-12.6 |
|
| - Footwear, allied products and other clothing accessories | 95.1 |
114.3 |
276 |
332 |
-6.2 |
- 1.5 |
-9.2 |
|
| Consumer durable goods | 87.7 |
92.2 |
2,362 |
2,483 |
-3.4 |
-3.6 |
-5.4 |
|
| - Motor vehicles and parts | 81.9 |
79.4 |
606 |
587 |
-11.7 |
-21.8 |
-10.6 |
|
| - Electrical goods and photographic equipment | 90.1 |
97.6 |
996 |
1,078 |
+3.1 |
+5.3 |
-1.9 |
|
| - Furniture and fixtures | 79.5 |
84.8 |
362 |
387 |
-6.9 |
+5.2 |
-10.3 |
|
| - Other consumer durable goods, not elsewhere classified | 101.2 |
109.5 |
398 |
431 |
- 1.5 |
-0.6 |
-0.2 |
|
| Department stores | 91.3 |
97.8 |
1,349 |
1,445 |
-5.1 |
-0.4 |
-6.7 |
|
| Jewellery, watches and clocks, and valuable gifts | 92.0 |
86.7 |
1,781 |
1,680 |
+1.3 |
+6.4 |
-10.9 |
|
| Other consumer goods | 99.6 |
99.5 |
2,906 |
2,903 |
+ 1.5 |
+6.1 |
-1.0 |
|
| - Books, newspapers, stationery and gifts | 91.7 |
113.6 |
443 |
549 |
-12.7 |
+1.6 |
-9.1 |
|
| - Chinese drugs and herbs | 99.8 |
107.9 |
267 |
289 |
+ 4.5 |
+5.4 |
+2.1 |
|
| - Optical shops | 95.3 |
100.3 |
138 |
146 |
-12.0 |
-6.8 |
-12.8 |
|
| - Medicines and cosmetics | 115.2 |
110.6 |
1,124 |
1,080 |
+9.0 |
+9.8 |
+4.3 |
|
| - Other consumer goods, not elsewhere classified | 89.3 |
80.4 |
933 |
840 |
+2.3 |
+7.3 |
-1.6 |
|
| * These figures do not include sales in supermarket sections of department stores. Supplementary statistics that include such sales are shown below : |
| Supermarkets and supermarket sections of department stores | 105.7 |
105.5 |
2,328 |
2,324 |
-0.6 |
-0.8 |
+0.4 |
| The sum of individual items and the total shown might not exactly tally because of rounding. The underlined figures were rounded up to 5. |