Retail Trade - February 2005
Retail trade growing at a lower rate
Publication Date: 15. 04. 2005
Product Code: r-9101-05
Seasonally adjusted constant price retail sales (CZ-NACE 52) decreased by 0.1% month-on-month . The trend component rose by 0.2% m-o-m, its growth remained basically stable (Table 1).
Not seasonally adjusted sales in the individual assortment types of stores:
- sales in non-specialised stores decreased by 0.1%, of which sale in stores selling predominantly non-food goods fell by 2.9% and sale in stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating grew by 0.5%. Sales in all size groups of enterprises in both assortment types of stores dropped, with the exception of enterprises with 100 or more employees;
- specialised stores saw faster growing sale of food, beverages and tobacco (+3.8%) than sale of non-food goods (+2.5 %);
- among individual types of stores, in particular sale of pharmaceutical and medical goods, cosmetic and toilet articles (+6.0%) and sale of textiles, clothing and footwear (+5.3%) rose; sale of books, newspapers and stationery and other retail sale in specialised stores (+1.7%) and sale of electronics, electrical appliances, hardware, furniture and other household goods (+0.3 %) grew less;
- demand for sale via stalls and markets and other non-store retail sale rose (+5.5%), whereas sale via mail order houses and sale of second-hand goods in stores fell (-10.1% and -0.5%, respectively).
In February, according to Eurostat estimates, seasonally adjusted retail sales in the EU25 grew by 0.4% m-o-m and by 1.9% y-o-y (working days adjusted). Among Member States for which data are available, sales increased y-o-y in Slovakia (+12.5%), Lithuania (+9.0%), Denmark (+8.2%), Sweden (+4.3%), the United Kingdom (+3.6%), Portugal (+3.1%), Spain (+2.4%), France (+2.1%), Germany (+1.1%) and Poland (+0.1%). On the other hand, sales fell in Luxembourg (-3.7%) and Belgium (-0.6%).The growth of not seasonally adjusted constant price sales in the automotive segment (CZ-NACE 50) (+0.4%) occurred only due to sale of automotive fuel (+1.7%), while sale of motor vehicles and maintenance and repair of motor vehicles were down (-0.4% and -0.6%, respectively), all y-o-y.
Not seasonally adjusted sales in retail trade incl. the automotive segment (CZ-NACE 52+50) increased by 1.0% y-o-y (constant prices).
Note
1) The whole time series is seasonally adjusted every month, 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: 5 April 2005
End of data processing: 8 April 2005
The data are preliminary; revised data for each month of 2005 will be known in June 2006.
Monthly data since 1997 are available as time series ( /produkty/slu_cr ).