Retail Trade - May

In May, seasonally adjusted (SA) sales in retail trade including automotive segment decreased month-on-month by 2.1% at constant prices and in the year-on-year comparison they dropped by 5.3%. Seasonally non-adjusted sales decreased by 7.5%, in the year-on-year comparison. The year-on-year sales drop was recorded in all surveyed retail trade product groups.




Beginning from May the CZSO modified the order of assessed industries in compliance with the users´ requirements. In the first place CZ-NACE 45 + 47, i.e. “Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles” (CZ-NACE 45) and “Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles” (CZ-NACE 47) are assessed. CZ-NACE 47 includes also retail trade of automotive fuel (CZ-NACE 47.3). To make it clearer, these two industries will be assessed together under the name retail trade incl. automotive segment (CZ-NACE 45+47). Next will be assessed CZ NACE 45, marked as sale and repair of motor vehicles and, finally, CZ-NACE 47, marked as retail trade incl. sale of automotive fuel. Comparable data for EU27, which can be found at the end of the News Releases, are available only for NACE 47.



With seasonal, calendar and working day adjustment sales in retail trade incl. automotive segment dropped in May, m-o-m, by 2.1%, at constant prices, and by 5.3%, y-o-y. Seasonally non-adjusted sales decreased by 7.5%, in the year-on-year comparison, which was also partly due to a lower number of working days (-1 working day) in 2009 compared to 2008. The biggest contribution to the y-o-y drop came from the sale of motor vehicles (incl. spare parts) and sale of non-food goods (see table 2), however, sales dropped in all surveyed retail trade product groups.




Seasonally adjusted sales in sale and repair of motor vehicles (CZ-NACE 45) fell by 5.6% at constant prices in the month-on-month comparison and by 11.4%, y-o-y. Seasonally non-adjusted sales dropped, y-o-y, by 14.6%, of which sales from the sale of motor vehicles by 15.0% and from repair by 12.3%.



In retail sale including sale of automotive fuel (CZ-NACE 47) seasonally adjusted sales dropped, m-o-m, by 0.7%, at constant prices and by 2.6%, in the year-on-year comparison. Seasonally non-adjusted sales dropped by 4.3%, y-o-y, of which sales from the sale of food by 1.3%, non-food goods by 5.7% and automotive fuel by 6.5%.

In all surveyed product groups the smallest sales drop (-0.2%) was recorded in non-specialized stores with food, beverages and tobacco predominating, in which the group the enterprises employing 100+ employees including especially chain stores recorded a 1.3% sales increase. The biggest slump was reported for the sale of food, beverages and tobacco in specialized stores (-12.7%). Except for the sale via Internet and via mail order houses, cultural and recreation goods, pharmaceutical and medical goods, cosmetic and toilet articles, sales in all other product groups dropped by more than 5%.

The price deflator related to the corresponding period in 2008 was 95.4%. The biggest price increase was recorded in specialized stores with food, beverages and tobacco (+3.1%) and in stores with pharmaceutical and medical goods, cosmetic and toilet articles (+2.7%). By contrast, prices of fuel dropped by 20.0%, prices of information and communication equipment by 8.9% and prices of second-hand goods by 6.2%.

In May, according to data released by Eurostat, SA retail sales in the EU27 decreased month-on-month by 0.5% at constant prices and, working day adjusted sales dropped by 3.1%, year-on-year. The sales grew only in Sweden (+2.2%) and Poland (+0.4%). The biggest sales drops were recorded in Latvia (-26.4%), Lithuania (-19.9%) and in Slovenia (-13.4%).

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Methodological note:
Based on changes in the Retail Trade News Release Table 2 was adjusted.
Contact: Marcela Mašátová, tel. (+420) 274052681, e-mail: marcela.masatova@csu.gov.cz
Data source: CZSO direct survey in enterprises
End of data collection: 2 July 2009
End of data processing: 8 July 2009
The data for May 2009 are preliminary; final data for all months of 2009 will be available in June 2010 at the latest. Monthly data since 2000 (y-o-y indices since 2001) were also revised and are available in time series.
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