Retail Trade - August 2006

In August, seasonally adjusted sales in ‘retail trade except of motor vehicles and motorcycles’ increased by 0.1% month-on-month at constant prices. Not seasonally adjusted sales grew by 6.1% year-on-year; sale of non-food goods still increased more dynamically than sale of food, beverages and tobacco. The biggest contribution to the growth of total sales had other retail sales of new goods in specialised stores and non-specialised stores with food, beverages and tobacco predominating.
Seasonally adjusted retail sales (CZ-NACE 52) grew by 0.1% month-on-month at constant prices in August, of which sale of non-food goods by 0.4%, sale of food, beverages and tobacco on the contrary dropped by 0.4%. The trend component was up by 0.4% and even though its growth has been gradually decelerating since the beginning of the year, this slow down in individual months is within per cent hundredths (Table 1).
Not seasonally adjusted sales grew by 6.1% year-on-year at constant prices, of which non-food-goods by 7.6% and food, beverages and tobacco by 4.0%.

The following contributed most to the total growth in August: specialised stores with books, newspapers and stationery and other retail sale; non-specialised stores with food, beverages and tobacco predominating; and specialised stores with electrical household appliances, hardware, furniture and other household goods. The decrease was registered in the sale of pharmaceutical and medical goods, cosmetic and toilet articles; and food, beverages and tobacco in specialised stores. Also salespersons in stalls and markets and in other non-store sales earned less than in August 2005 (Table 3).

Broken down by size group of enterprises, the biggest sale growth occurred in enterprises with 100+ employees and 50 to 99 employees (+8.4%, +6.2%, respectively). Enterprises with 0 to 19 employees reported a growth of 4.2%, while with 20 to 49 employees only 1.7%.


The price deflator for retail sales (compared to the corresponding period of previous year) was 100.2%. Higher prices were in stores selling food, beverages and tobacco, in both specialised (+2.2%) and non-specialised (+1.4%), in specialised stores with pharmaceutical and medical goods, cosmetic and toilet articles (+1.8%), with other non-food goods (+0.4%), and in retail sale not in stores (excluding retail sale via mail order houses) (+0.4%). The biggest drop in prices was recorded for specialised stores with textiles, clothing and footwear (-6.0%).


In August, according to data released by Eurostat, seasonally adjusted constant price retail sales in the EU25 were up by 0.6% month-on-month and 3.3% year-on-year (working days adjusted). Among member states for which data were available, year-on-year increases in retail sales were observed in Latvia (+20.6%), Estonia (+17.6%), Lithuania (+8.7%), Slovakia (+8.3%), Sweden (+8.0%), Poland (+6.6%), Finland (+5.5%), the United Kingdom (+4.2%), Spain (+4.1%), France (+3.6%), Denmark (+3.1%), Portugal (+2.6%), Luxembourg (+2.3%), Austria (+1.8%) and Germany (+0.5%). The fall was registered in Slovenia (-2.7%) and Belgium (-1.6%).
Growth of not seasonally adjusted sales in the automotive segment (CZ-NACE 50) by 8.3% year-on-year at constant prices was affected by increased sale, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles (+15.3%, 14.1%, respectively). According to data on registration of motor vehicles, registrations for used vehicles grew faster than for new vehicles. Retail sale of automotive fuel dropped by 1.0%. According to the aliens’ registration office, it is clear that in August arrivals of non-residents and also departures of residents using road transport decreased. This could have partly affected the sale of automotive fuel and diesel (these calculations include also freight transport by road).


In retail trade incl. the automotive segment (CZ-NACE 52+50) , seasonally adjusted sales at constant prices grew by 0.2% month-on-month and not seasonally adjusted sales by 6.8% year-on-year.

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Note
1) The whole time series is seasonally adjusted every month; indices in the graph are changed retroactively.

Contact: Alena Hellerová, tel. (+420) 274052921, e-mail: alena.hellerova@csu.gov.cz
Data source: CZSO direct survey in enterprises
End of data collection: 6 October 2006
End of data processing: 12 October 2006
The data for August 2006 are preliminary. Final data for all months of 2006 will be known in June 2007 at the latest.
Monthly data since 1997 are available as time series ( /produkty/slu_cr