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MARCH KEY FIGURES

		March 2012	Feb 2012 to Mar 2012
		$m	% change
Turnover at current prices
	Trend	21 117.7	0.3
	Seasonally Adjusted	21 231.0	0.9

		March Qtr 2012	December Qtr 2011 to March Qtr 2012
		$m	% change
Turnover in volume terms
	Trend	61 629.6	1.0
	Seasonally Adjusted	61 886.2	1.8

Monthly Turnover, Current Prices - Trend Estimate

Quarterly Turnover, in volume terms - Trend estimate

• The trend estimate rose 0.3% in March 2012. This follows a rise of 0.3% in February 2012 and a rise of 0.2% in January 2012.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate rose 0.9% in March 2012. This follows a rise of 0.3% in February 2012 and a rise of 0.4% January 2012.
• In trend terms, Australian turnover rose 2.9% in March 2012 compared with March 2011.
• The following industries rose in trend terms in March 2012: Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services (0.8%), Food retailing (0.2%), Other retailing (0.6%), Clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing (0.6%) and Department stores (0.5%). Household goods retailing (-0.5%) fell in trend terms in March 2012.
• The following states and territories rose in trend terms in March 2012: Queensland (0.6%), Western Australia (0.8%), Victoria (0.3%), the Australian Capital Territory (0.7%), the Northern Territory (0.3%) and Tasmania (0.1%). South Australia (0.0%) was relatively unchanged. New South Wales (-0.1%) fell in trend terms in March 2012.

• In Volume terms, the trend estimate for Australian turnover rose 1.0% in the March quarter 2012.

• 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.