Retail Trade - July 2006
Thirty-second month of continuing year-on-year growth of sales
Publication Date: 14. 09. 2006
Product Code: r-9101-06
In July, seasonally adjusted sales in ‘retail trade except of motor vehicles and motorcycles’ increased by 0.3% month-on-month at constant prices. Not seasonally adjusted sales grew by 6.9% year-on-year; sale of non-food goods increased more than sale of food, beverages and tobacco. Total sales have been continuously growing for thirty-two months, of which by at least 6% in January to July 2006.
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Seasonally adjusted retail sales (CZ-NACE 52) grew by 0.3% month-on-month at constant prices in July, of which sale of non-food goods by 0.3% and sale of food, beverages and tobacco by 0.2%. The trend component was up by 0.4%. From February 2005 to January 2006 the growth of the trend component accelerated every month (except June 2005), since February 2006 it has been slowing down. However, differences between individual months are within per cent hundredths (Table 1).
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The following contributed most to the total growth in July: non-specialised stores with food, beverages and tobacco predominating; and specialised stores with electrical household appliances, hardware, furniture and other household goods (these stores recorded also the fastest growth of sales). The decrease was registered in the sale of food, beverages and tobacco in specialised stores (Table 3).
Broken down by size group of enterprises, the biggest sale growth occurred in enterprises with 100+ employees (+8.8%). Enterprises in the other size groups reported growth from 2.3% to 5.6%.
The price deflator for retail sales (compared to the corresponding period of previous year) was 100.2%. Higher prices (year-on-year) were in stores selling food, beverages and tobacco, specialised (+2.1%) and non-specialised alike (+1.3%), in specialised stores with pharmaceutical and medical goods, cosmetic and toilet articles (+0.9%), with other non-food goods (+0.5%), and in retail sale not in stores (excluding retail sale via mail order houses) (+0.3%). The biggest drop in prices was recorded for specialised stores with textiles, clothing and footwear (-6.8%).
In July, according to data released by Eurostat, seasonally adjusted constant price retail sales in the EU25 were up by 0.3% 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 Estonia (+19.4%), Latvia (+18.7%), Poland (+9.1%), Slovakia (+8.8%), Sweden (+7.9%), Lithuania (+5.8%), France (+5.5%), Finland (+5.1%), Portugal (+4.6%), Denmark and the United Kingdom (both +3.9%), Austria (+2.3%), Slovenia (+2.0%), Spain (+1.1%) and Germany (+0.8%). The fall was registered in Belgium (-1.1%).
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Not seasonally adjusted sales in the automotive segment (CZ-NACE 50) grew by 5.5% year-on-year at constant prices, of which sale, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles increased by 6.6% and retail sale of automotive fuel by 3.9%.
In retail trade incl. the automotive segment (CZ-NACE 52+50) , seasonally adjusted sales at constant prices grew by 0.6% month-on-month and not seasonally adjusted sales by 6.4% year-on-year .
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: 7 September 2006
End of data processing: 11 September 2006
The data for July 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 ).