Retail Trade - May 2011

Higher food prices slowed down sale of food

04.07.2011
Code: r-9101-11
 




In May, sales in retail trade including automotive segment after seasonal, calendar and working day adjustment decreased at constant prices by 0.7%, month-on-month. Only working days adjusted sales increased by 1.4%, year-on-year. Y-o-y increase of non-adjusted sales by 3.2% was influenced mainly by the development in “wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles” and non-food goods.


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After seasonal, calendar and working day adjustment sales in retail trade including sale and repair of motor vehicles decreased in May by 0.7%, at constant prices, m-o-m; only working days adjusted increased by 1.4%, year-on-year. The y-o-y growth of non-adjusted sales by 3.2% was contributed to (with a higher number of working days in May 2011 than in 2010 by 1 day) mainly by “wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles” (+2.1 p.p.), and non-food goods (+1.9 p.p.), while the opposite effect came from sale of food (-0.6 p.p.) and sale of automotive fuel (-0.2 p.p.); see Table 2.

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Seasonally adjusted sales in sale and repair of motor vehicles (CZ-NACE 45) decreased by 0.2% at constant prices, m-o-m, and in the year-on-year comparison, adjusted for working days, they increased by 3.3%. Non-adjusted sales increased by 6.6%, y-o-y; sales for sale of motor vehicles and motorcycles (including spare parts) increased by 6.7% and sales for maintenance and repair of motor vehicles by 6.1%. Uninterrupted growth of sales in the automotive segment is lasting for 13 months already.

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In retail sale including sale of automotive fuel (CZ-NACE 47) seasonally adjusted sales at constant prices decreased by 1.0%, m-o-m; working days adjusted increased by 0.5%, y-o-y. Seasonally non-adjusted sales increased by 1.6%, y-o-y, despite the fact that the growth was decelerated by drop of sale of food and automotive fuel (-2.5% and -1.7%, respectively). It was contributed to by increased sales of non-food goods by 5.9%.

Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet was increasing already for the nineteenth month (+21.0%). Sales growth was recorded also in retail sale of clothing, footwear and leather goods in specialised stores (+9.8%), retail sale of information and communication equipment in specialised stores (+9.3%), retail sale of cultural and recreation goods in specialised stores (+7.8%), dispensing chemist, medical and orthopaedic goods, cosmetic and toilet articles in specialised stores (+5.1%), and retail sale of other household equipment in specialised stores (+3.4%). On the contrary, food was sold less both in retail sale of food, beverages and tobacco in specialised stores (-2.8%) and in retail sale of non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating (-2.5%). In other retail sale in non-specialised stores sales decreased by 0.9%.

The price deflator related to the corresponding period of the previous year was 102.4%; it was influenced by continuing price increase of automotive fuel (+10.0%) and food. This development was reflected in the total price growth in retail sale in stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating (+5.3%). The deepest price falls were in retail sale of information and communication equipment in specialised stores (-9.4%), textiles and footwear (-2.4%), and other household equipment in specialised stores (-2.0%).

International comparison of retail sales development in the EU Member States is available at: ( http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home).



Methodological note:
Responsible head: Marie Boušková, phone (+420) 274052935, e-mail: marie.bouskova@czso.cz
Contact person: Marcela Mašátová, phone (+420) 274052681, e-mail: marcela.masatova@czso.cz
Method of data acquisition: direct surveys of the CZSO (SP1-12)
End of data collection: 27June 2011
End of data processing: 29 June 2011
Data for May 2011 are preliminary; final data for all months of 2011 will be available in June 2012 at the latest.
Related publications: Base and y-o-y indices from 2000 and 2001 are available in time series
( /csu/czso/sales_indices_monthly_retail_trade_hotels_and_restaurants_time_series ).
The next News Release will be published on 4 August 2011.



  • amal070411.doc

  • Annexes:
  • Table 1 Retail Trade, Sale and Repair of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles
  • Table 2 Sales in main assortment types of stores (year-on-year changes, decomposition of increase - year-on-year)
  • Graph 1 Retail trade excl. retail sale of automotive fuel (fixed base indices)
  • Graph 2 Retail trade turnover (CZ-NACE 47) - international comparison
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Published: 04.07.2011
The data are valid as of the release date of the publication.


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