Retail Trade - July 2005

Seasonally adjusted retail sales (CZ-NACE 52) grew by 0.1% m-o-m at constant prices. The trend component rose by 0.3% m-o-m, i.e. just like the average increase for last 12 months (Table 1).

Graph 1

Seasonally adjusted and working days adjusted sales at constant prices were up by 3.0% y-o-y. The number of working days being lower this year (-1), not seasonally adjusted sales grew by 1.9%, of which sale of non-food goods by 2.5% and sale of food, beverages and tobacco by 1.3%.

Not seasonally adjusted sales in individual assortment types of stores:

- non-specialised stores: sales grew by 1.8%, of which in stores with non-food goods predominating by 3.7% and in stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating by 1.3%. On the increase were sales of enterprises with 100 and more employees in both groups of stores and sales of self-employed without employees in stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating;

- the situation in specialised stores was similar, sale of non-food goods rose more (+2.2%) than sale of food, beverages and tobacco (+1.0%). Sale of non-food goods grew particularly in enterprises with 50 and more employees, whereas growth of sale of food, beverages and tobacco was highest in enterprises with 100 and more employees;

- among individual types of stores with non-food goods, mainly sales of textile, clothing and footwear (+12.2%), pharmaceutical and medical goods, cosmetic and toilet articles (+3.7%) and electronics, electrical appliances, hardware, furniture and other household goods (+2.3%) were up. Sale of books, newspapers and stationery and other retail sale in specialised stores dropped by 0.1%;

- sale via stalls and markets and other non-store retail sale grew by 2.7%, sale via mail order houses by 0.6%, while sale of second-hand goods in stores fell by 6.3%. Nevertheless, the percentage of these types of sale in total sales is insignificant.

In July, according to Eurostat estimates, seasonally adjusted retail sales in the EU25 were down by 0.2% m-o-m and up by 0.9% y-o-y (working days adjusted). Among member states for which data were available, y-o-y increases in sales were observed in Latvia (+21.1%), Denmark (+9.5%), Sweden (+8.5%), Slovakia (+8.0%), Belgium (+7.1%), Slovenia (+5.8%), Finland (+5.0%), the United Kingdom (+1.4%), Poland (+0.6%), Spain (+0.4%) and Germany (+0.3%). Decreases were reported for Luxembourg (-1.4%), France and Portugal (both -1.2%).
The growth of not seasonally adjusted sales in the automotive segment (CZ-NACE 50) by 1.0% y-o-y at constant prices was affected by higher sale of automotive fuel (+3.5%) and motor vehicles (+0.5%). Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles fell by 3.9%.

In retail trade incl. the automotive segment (CZ-NACE 52+50) , seasonally adjusted sales rose by 0.4% m-o-m and not seasonally adjusted sales grew by 1.6% y-o-y, both at constant prices.

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

Contact: Alena Hellerova, tel. (+420) 274052921, e-mail: ahellerova@gw.czso.cz
Data source: CZSO direct survey in enterprises
End of data collection: 2 September 2005
End of data processing: 7 September 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 ).