Oct-2020 ($m) | Sep-2020 to Oct-2020 (% change) | Oct-2019 to Oct-2020 (% change) | |
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Trend | na | na | na |
Seasonally Adjusted | 29,552.3 | 1.4 | 7.1 |
na not available
Monthly and quarterly estimates of turnover and volumes for retail businesses, including store and online sales.
The October 2020 seasonally adjusted estimate:
Oct-2020 ($m) | Sep-2020 to Oct-2020 (% change) | Oct-2019 to Oct-2020 (% change) | |
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Trend | na | na | na |
Seasonally Adjusted | 29,552.3 | 1.4 | 7.1 |
na not available
To understand more about any changes in this issue, suspension of trend estimates, and COVID-19 in October, please read the survey impacts and changes.
Food retailing fell 0.1% in October, in seasonally adjusted terms.
By industry subgroup, the seasonally adjusted estimate:
Household goods retailing fell 1.0% in October, in seasonally adjusted terms.
By industry subgroup, the seasonally adjusted estimate:
Clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing rose 6.8% in October, in seasonally adjusted terms.
By industry subgroup, the seasonally adjusted estimate:
Department stores rose 4.5% in October, in seasonally adjusted terms.
Other retailing rose 2.0% in October, in seasonally adjusted terms.
By industry subgroup, the seasonally adjusted estimate:
Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services rose 5.4% in October, in seasonally adjusted terms.
By industry subgroup, the seasonally adjusted estimate:
There are no revisions to the original estimates.
This issue includes updated online retail turnover estimates for the October 2020 reference month. This issue also includes Survey of Consumer Sales estimates for the September quarter. Data can be found in the Data Downloads section, and the data is explained in the methodology section of this publication.
The trend series attempts to measure underlying behaviour in retail activity. In the short term, this measurement will be significantly affected by changes to regular patterns in retail spending that will occur during the Coronavirus pandemic. If the trend estimates in this publication were to be calculated without fully accounting for irregular events, they would likely provide a misleading view of underlying retail activity.
The retail trend series was therefore suspended from February 2020, and now published only to June 2019. The trend series will be reinstated when more certainty emerges in the underlying trend in retail.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) commenced daily situation reports of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak on 21 January 2020 and identified it as an international health emergency on 30 January. From 1 February, the Australian Government placed travel restrictions on those travelling to Australia from mainland China and restrictions on inbound tourism have remained in place. In March, regulations to encourage social distancing saw further impacts on the ability of businesses to trade as normal. This included restrictions on dining-in at restaurants and restrictions on the number of people that could be in a shop at a particular time. Restrictions were eased gradually in May and June 2020. In July 2020, a spike in coronavirus cases in Victoria saw restrictions tightened, especially in Melbourne. Stage 4 restrictions in Melbourne, and Stage 3 restrictions across the rest of Victoria, were in place for much of August through to the end of October. Movement across state borders have been restricted.
This release previously used catalogue number 8501.0.
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