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DECEMBER KEY FIGURES
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ESTIMATES
ORIGINAL ESTIMATES
VOLUME MEASURES
NOTES CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE Quarterly chain volume data are shown in tables 14 and 15 of this issue.
FOOD RETAILING The trend series has been in decline for four months. For this period New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory had no growth or were in decline. DEPARTMENT STORES The trend series has been in decline for four months. All published states and the Australian Capital Territory were in decline for this period. CLOTHING AND SOFT GOOD RETAILING The trend series has been in decline for four months. All states except Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory were in decline for this period. Western Australia had weak growth in December while the Australian Capital Territory has had strong growth for six months. HOUSEHOLD GOOD RETAILING Trend growth has been moderate over the past six months after a period of weak growth from February 2004 to June 2004. Over the last six months, New South Wales and Victoria have had moderate to strong growth while the Northern Territory has been in decline. RECREATIONAL GOOD RETAILING The trend has been in decline for the last six months. During this six month period, Victoria and Queensland have been in decline while Western Australia has had strong growth. Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory have been in decline for the past four months. OTHER RETAILING The trend series has been in decline for four months. New South Wales and Victoria have been in decline for at least 12 months while Western Australia and South Australia have had strong growth for 14 months and four months respectively. TOTAL RETAIL (EXCLUDING HOSPITALITY AND SERVICES) Total retail (excluding Hospitality and services) was in decline in December 2004. Over the last three months, the rate of trend growth has been the same as that of Total industries (including Hospitality and services). HOSPITALITY AND SERVICES The trend has been in decline for the last seven months. New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia have been in decline for the last six months or longer. After four months of weak growth, Victoria had no growth for November and December 2004. STATE TRENDS MONTHLY SEASONALLY ADJUSTED AND TREND ESTIMATES NEW SOUTH WALES The trend estimate has been in decline for the last five months. Over this period, Department stores, Clothing and soft good retailing, Other retailing and Hospitality and services have been in decline. VICTORIA After seven months of weak trend growth, the trend has been in decline for three months. All industries except Household good retailing have had no growth or a decline in the last two months. Recreational good retailing and Other retailing have had a decline in the trend estimate for at least the last 11 months. QUEENSLAND The trend has been in decline for the last four months. All industries except Household good retailing have been in decline for at least two months. Hospitality and services has been in decline for 11 months. Household good retailing had no growth in December 2004 and weak growth for the previous six months. SOUTH AUSTRALIA The trend has been in decline for the last five months. Department stores, Clothing and soft good retailing and Hospitality and services have been in decline for at least five months. After moderate growth for at least three months, Food retailing and Household good retailing slowed to weak growth in December 2004. Other retailing has had strong growth over the last four months. WESTERN AUSTRALIA The rate of trend growth has been decreasing over the past six months with no growth for December 2004. Strong growth in recent months in Recreational good retailing and Other retailing has been offset by a decline in Food retailing, Department stores and Hospitality and services. Clothing and soft good retailing and Household good retailing had weak trend growth in December 2004. TASMANIA The trend has been in decline for the last four months. Food retailing has had 13 months of moderate trend growth, while Clothing and soft good retailing and Recreational good retailing have been in decline for four months. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.
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