Retail Trade - April 2005
Easter affected April sales development, too
Publication Date: 15. 06. 2005
Product Code: r-9101-05
Seasonally adjusted retail sales (CZ-NACE 52) grew by 0.8% m-o-m at constant prices. The trend component rose by 0.4% m-o-m, and its m-o-m growth has been on steady, slight increase during this year (Table 1).
Graph 1
Sales not seasonally adjusted grew by 1.0% -y-o-y at constant prices, of which those of food, beverages and tobacco by 1.2% and of non-food goods by 0.9%. Seasonally and working days adjusted sales were up by 3.0% in total. With the same number of working days in 2004 and this year, the different y-o-y development can be explained by the timing of Easter which fell on March this year while on April last year.
Sales, not seasonally adjusted, in the individual assortment types of stores:
- non-specialised stores: they grew by 1.5%, of which in stores with non-food goods predominating by 2.1% and in stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating by 1.3%;
- specialised stores: they grew by 0.8% in stores selling sale of food, beverages and tobacco and by 0.7% in stores selling non-food goods;
- steadily decreasing prices fuelled the long-term growth of sales in stores selling textiles, clothing and footwear (+14.6%). While sales increases were also recorded in stores selling pharmaceutical and medical goods, cosmetic and toilet articles (+2.2%) and electronics, electrical appliances, hardware, furniture and other household goods (+0.3%), they remained below their averages since the beginning of the year (by 1.2 and 2.2 percentage points respectively) . Sale of books, newspapers and stationery and other retail sale in specialised stores was 2.7% down on the previous year;
- as for the rather less significant types of sale, growth was only observed in sale via stalls and markets and other non-store retail sale (+4.9%). Consumers’ smaller interest decreased sale of second-hand goods in stores (-13.6%) and sale via mail order houses (-6.6%).
In April, according to Eurostat estimates, seasonally adjusted retail sales in the EU25 fell by 0.7% m-o-m or 0.3% y-o-y (working days adjusted). Among the Member States for which data were available, y-o-y increases in sales occurred in Denmark (+9.6%), Slovakia (+7.0%), Lithuania (+5.6%), Slovenia (+4.5%), Sweden (+4.1%), Spain (+3.0%), Belgium (+2.8%), Ireland (+1.9%), France (+1.0%), and the United Kingdom (+0.8%), while decreases were recorded for Poland (-9.4%), Portugal (-5.3%) and Luxembourg (-3.1%).
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Not seasonally adjusted sales in the automotive segment (CZ-NACE 50) grew y-o-y (+6.1%), and their constant price growth was mainly due to sale of motor vehicles, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles and sale of fuel (+7.5%, +7.1% and 3.7%, respectively).
Not seasonally adjusted sales in retail trade incl. the automotive segment (CZ-NACE 52+50) also grew y-o-y, up by 2.7% at constant prices.
Note
1) The whole time series is seasonally adjusted every month, the indices in the graph are changed retroactively.
Contact: Alena Hellerová, phone (+420) 274 052 921, e-mail: ahellerova@gw.czso.cz
Data source: CZSO direct survey in enterprises
End of data collection: 6 June 2005
End of data processing: 9 June 2005
The data are preliminary; revised data for all months of 2005 will be known in June 2006.
Monthly data since 1997 are available as time series ( /produkty/slu_cr ).