Retail Trade - November 2005

In November, seasonally adjusted sales in ‘retail trade except of motor vehicles and motorcycles’ were up by 0.6% month-on-month at constant prices. Not seasonally adjusted sales grew by 4.8% year-on-year, the biggest contribution to this growth had non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating and stores with electronics, electrical appliances, hardware, furniture and other household articles.

Seasonally adjusted retail sales (CZ-NACE 52) were up by 0.6% month-on-month in November, the trend component increased by 0.4%, its growth remaining roughly at the October level (Table 1).


Graph 1Under the same number of working days in November 2004 and 2005, not seasonally adjusted sales grew by 4.8% year-on-year at constant prices , the sale of non-food goods was up by 5.1% and the sale of food, beverages and tobacco by 4.3%

The fastest growing sales were in stores with clothing, textiles and footwear, non-specialised stores with non-food goods predominating and stores with electronics, electrical appliances, hardware, furniture and other household articles. A decrease was recorded only in sales via stalls and markets plus other non-store retail sale (-1.8%). The total growth was most contributed to by non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating and stores with electronics, electrical appliances, hardware, furniture and other household articles (Table 3).

In the classification according to size groups of enterprises the biggest sale growth occurred in enterprises with 100 or more employees (+8.1%) and with 50 to 99 employees (+6.2%). In the other size groups of enterprises sales grew in the range between 1.1% and 3.5%.

The price deflator for retail sales in total decreased by -0.9%, the highest increase occurred in stores with pharmaceutical and medical goods, cosmetic and toilet articles (+1.3%) and on the other hand the biggest drop was recorded in specialised stores with textiles, clothing and footwear (-6.1%).

In November, according to data presented by Eurostat, seasonally adjusted constant price retail sales in the EU25 were 0.4% up month-on-month and 1.4% up year-on-year (working days adjusted). Among member states for which data were available, year-on-year increases in sales were observed in Latvia (+20.6%), Lithuania (+17.7%), Slovakia (+10.2%), Poland (+9.9%), Sweden (+8.9%), Slovenia (+8.5%), Denmark (+5.8%), Finland (+5.1%), the United Kingdom (+1.9%), Portugal (+1.4%), France (+0.5%) and Spain (+0.1%). Decreases were reported for Belgium (-4.1%), Luxembourg (-2.9%) and Germany (-0.6%).
Not seasonally adjusted sales in the automotive segment (CZ-NACE 50) grew by 0.2% year-on-year at constant prices . Like in the previous month, the sale of automotive fuel dropped (-2.3%) and sale, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles rose (+1.6%). The low growth of sales of motor vehicles was among other things influenced by a high comparable basis of November 2004.


In retail trade incl. the automotive segment (CZ-NACE 52+50) , seasonally adjusted sales grew by 0.1% month-on-month and not seasonally adjusted sales rose by 3.3% year-on-year, 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: alena.hellerova@csu.gov.cz
Data source: CZSO direct survey in enterprises
End of data collection: 6 January 2006
End of data processing: 11 January 2006

The data for November 2005 are preliminary, further data refinement should take place when data for December 2005 are processed. Final data for all months of 2005 will be known in June 2006.

Monthly data since 1997 are available as time series (/produkty/slu_cr)