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8501.0 - Retail Trade, Australia, Jan 2011  
Previous ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 01/03/2011   
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JANUARY KEY FIGURES

January 2011
Dec 2010 to Jan 2011
$m
% change
Turnover at current prices
Trend
20 373.1
0.0
Seasonally Adjusted
20 440.6
0.4

Monthly Turnover, Current Prices - Trend Estimate
Graph: Monthly Turnover, Current Prices—Trend Estimate



JANUARY KEY POINTS


CURRENT PRICES
  • The trend estimate remained relatively unchanged in January 2011 (0.0%). This follows relatively unchanged estimates in December 2010 (0.0%) and November 2010 (0.0%).
  • The seasonally adjusted estimate rose 0.4% in January 2011. This follows a rise of 0.2% in December 2010 and a rise of 0.3% in November 2010.
  • In trend terms, Australian turnover rose 2.0% in January 2011 compared with January 2010.
  • The following industries rose in trend terms in January 2011: Food retailing (0.4%) and Department stores (0.1%). Household goods retailing (0.0%) was relatively unchanged. Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services (-1.0%), Clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing (-0.2%) and Other retailing (-0.1%) fell in trend terms in January 2011.
  • The following states and territories rose in trend terms in January 2011: Western Australia (0.5%), Queensland (0.1%) and the Australian Capital Territory (0.7%). New South Wales (0.0%) was relatively unchanged. Victoria (-0.2%), South Australia (-0.2%), Tasmania (-0.4%) and the Northern Territory (-0.1%) fell in trend terms in January 2011.


NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE Release Date
February 2011 31 March 2011
March 2011 5 May 2011
April 2011 2 June 2011
May 2011 4 July 2011
June 2011 3 August 2011
July 2011 1 September 2011



IMPACT OF THE FLOODS

Data collection activities for January 2011 continued to be affected by the floods in Queensland and other states as well as cyclone Yasi in North Queensland. This has not affected the data quality or reliability of the Australian series.

The estimates for Queensland industry sub-groups and sample sector series for both December 2010 and January 2011 have been impacted by lower than usual response rates to the survey and therefore should be used with caution.


REVISIONS

Original estimates for December 2010 have been revised as a result of updated information received from survey respondents. Original estimates for both December 2010 and January 2011 may be subject to revision in future releases.

Revisions to seasonally adjusted estimates are due to the concurrent methodology for deriving seasonal factors.


TIME SERIES DATA

Data available from the Downloads tab of this issue on the ABS website include longer time series of tables in this publication, the quarterly chain volume measures and the following additional current price monthly series:
  • Retail turnover by state and 15 industry subgroups in trend, seasonally adjusted and original terms
  • Retail turnover completely enumerated and sample sector, by six industry groups in original terms
  • Retail turnover completely enumerated and sample sector, by state in original terms
  • Retail turnover completely enumerated sector, total level in trend, seasonally adjusted and original terms.


INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070 or Katlean Pussell on Sydney (02) 9268 4568.


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