10 March 2017

The Czech Statistical Office updates formal look of its News Releases on the development of sales in retail trade and services. The News Releases will newly publish every month time series of base indices of sales (seasonally adjusted and adjusted for calendar effects), in which the average of 2010 is the base. These time series will be published for the first time on 15 March together with the News Release on retail trade for January 2017.

The above mentioned News Release will include also a new table of year-on-year sales indices adjusted for calendar effects for main assortment types of stores, i.e. food, non-food goods, and retail sale of automotive fuel.

News Releases are outputs of the CZSO, which are released according to the Calendar of News Releases and the Catalogue of Products always on the date determined in advance precisely at 9 a.m. on the website of the CZSO: www.czso.cz . They are available to users in both Czech and English.

Contact:
Petra Báčová
Spokeswoman of the CZSO
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