Retail Trade - November 2006

In November, seasonally adjusted sales in ‘retail trade except of motor vehicles and motorcycles’ increased by 0.9% month-on-month at constant prices. Not seasonally adjusted sales grew by 5.7% year-on-year, which was by 0.7 percentage point less than the average of the last 12 months. The biggest share – approximately a third - in the growth of total sales had non-specialised stores with food, beverages and tobacco predominating and specialised stores with other non-food goods (approx. 30%).
Seasonally adjusted retail sales (CZ-NACE 52) grew by 0.9% month-on-month at constant prices in November, of which sale of food, beverages and tobacco by 1.5%, sale of non-food goods by 0.4%. The trend component, similarly as in the previous five months, was up by 0.4% (Table 1).

Seasonally adjusted sales increased by 6.3% year-on-year at constant prices. In November, not seasonally adjusted sales grew by 5.7% (with the same number of working days in both 2006 and 2005), of which sales of non-food-goods by 6.4% and sales of food, beverages and tobacco increased by 4.7%. The growth of total sales was in November the second lowest since the beginning of the year. As against the average of the last 12 months, it was by 0.7 percentage points lower; sales for non-food goods grew by 1.2 p.p. slower and sales of food, beverages and tobacco on the other hand by 0.1 p.p. faster than the average.
The following contributed most to the total growth in November: non-specialised stores with food, beverages and tobacco predominating, specialised stores with other non-food goods (e.g. sports equipment, toys, jewellery, clocks, books, flowers, cameras, computers etc) and stores with electrical household appliances, hardware, furniture and other household goods. The fastest growth occurred in stores with textiles, clothing and footwear and in stores with household goods. A drop was recorded only in sale of pharmaceutical and medical goods, cosmetic and toilet articles (-5.7%), sale of food, beverages and tobacco in specialised stores (-1.0%) and sale of second-hand goods (-12.8%) (Table 3).

Broken down by size group of enterprises, the biggest sale growth occurred in enterprises with 50 to 99 employees respectively with 100+ employees (+10.3% and +7.8%, respectively). Enterprises in other size groups reported a growth from 0.1% to 3.8%.

The price deflator (compared to the corresponding period of previous year), used for deflating retail sales to constant prices, was 100%. Different development was recorded in individual assortments for e.g. in stores selling food, beverages and tobacco, in both specialised and non-specialised prices increased (+1.3% and +0.8%, respectively), similarly in stores with pharmaceutical and medical goods, cosmetic and toilet articles (+1.7%) and stores with other non-food goods (+0.7%). On the contrary, a drop in prices was recorded for specialised stores with textiles, clothing and footwear (-5.2%).


In November, according to data released by Eurostat, seasonally adjusted constant price retail sales in the EU25 were up by 0.4% month-on-month and by 2.3% year-on-year (working days adjusted). Among member states for which data were available, sales increased year-on-year in Latvia (+21.8%), Estonia (+20.5%), Poland (+8.7%), Slovakia (+7.8%), Sweden (+7.4%), Lithuania (+6.0%), Finland (+5.4%), Spain (+3.9%), the United Kingdom (+3.3%), Denmark (+2.3%), Luxembourg (+2.1%), Slovenia (+1.7%) and Portugal (+0.4%).
In the automotive segment (CZ-NACE 50) not seasonally adjusted sales increased by 7.8% year-on-year at constant prices; sale of automotive fuel by 9.3% and sale, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles increased by 7.0%. In connection with the change of conditions for the import of used vehicles from July 2006, since this month, according to the SAP statistics, a marked increase of the number of first registrations of the mentioned vehicles has been recorded (for e.g. in November 2006 by 50% more than in November 2005).

In retail trade incl. the automotive segment (CZ-NACE 52+50) , seasonally adjusted sales at constant prices increased by 0.7% month-on-month and not seasonally adjusted sales by 6.4% year-on-year.

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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: 10 January 2007
End of data processing: 15 January 2007
The data for November 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 ( /slu_ts ).