8501.0 - Retail Trade, Australia, Nov 2014  
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 09/01/2015   
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NOVEMBER KEY FIGURES

November 2014
October 2014 to November 2014
$m
% change

Turnover at current prices
Trend
23 629.6
0.4
Seasonally Adjusted
23 764.5
0.1


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



NOVEMBER KEY POINTS


CURRENT PRICES
  • The trend estimate rose 0.4% in November 2014. This follows a rise of 0.4% in October 2014 and a rise of 0.4% in September 2014.
  • The seasonally adjusted estimate rose 0.1% in November 2014. This follows a rise of 0.4% in October 2014 and a rise of 1.3% in September 2014.
  • In trend terms, Australian turnover rose 4.5% in November 2014 compared with November 2013.
  • The following industries rose in trend terms in November 2014: Food retailing (0.4%), Household goods retailing (0.5%), Department stores (0.6%), Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services (0.3%) and Clothing and footwear (0.5%). Other retailing (-0.1%) fell in trend terms in November 2014.
  • The following states and territories rose in trend terms in November 2014: New South Wales (0.5%), Victoria (0.3%), Western Australia (0.3%), South Australia (0.6%), the Australian Capital Territory (0.9%), the Northern Territory (0.1%) and Tasmania (0.1%). Queensland (0.0%) remained relatively unchanged.



NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE Release Date
December 2014 5 February 2015
January 2015 5 March 2015
February 2015 7 April 2015
March 2015 6 May 2015
April 2015 5 June 2015
May 2015 8 July 2015



CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

This issue includes updated online retail turnover estimates for the November 2014 reference month. These estimates are provided and explained within the appendix section of this publication.


REVISIONS

There are no revisions to the original estimates. 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:
  • Monthly retail turnover by state and 15 industry subgroups in trend, seasonally adjusted and original terms
  • Monthly retail turnover completely enumerated and sample sectors, by six industry groups and also by state in original terms
  • Monthly retail turnover completely enumerated sector, total level in trend, seasonally adjusted and original terms
  • Quarterly retail chain volume measures by six industry groups and also by state in trend, seasonally adjusted and original terms
  • Quarterly retail turnover per capita in trend, seasonally adjusted and original terms
  • Quarterly sales to households by selected service industries in original terms.


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