8501.0 - Retail Trade, Australia, Apr 2011  
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APRIL KEY FIGURES

April 2011
Mar 2011 to Apr 2011
$m
% change
Turnover at current prices
Trend
20 622.8
0.4
Seasonally Adjusted
20 737.9
1.1

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



APRIL KEY POINTS


CURRENT PRICES
  • The trend estimate rose 0.4% in April 2011. This follows a rise of 0.4% in March 2011 and a rise of 0.3% in February 2011.
  • The seasonally adjusted estimate rose 1.1% in April 2011. This follows a fall of 0.3% in March 2011 and a rise of 1.0% in February 2011.
  • In trend terms, Australian turnover rose 2.7% in April 2011 compared with April 2010.
  • The following industries rose in trend terms in April 2011: Food retailing (0.5%), Other retailing (0.9%), Clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing (0.7%), Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services (0.2%) and Department stores (0.3%). Household goods retailing (-0.1%) fell in trend terms in April 2011.
  • The following states and territories rose in trend terms in April 2011: Victoria (0.5%), Queensland (0.5%), Western Australia (0.8%), New South Wales (0.2%), South Australia (0.2%) and the Northern Territory (1.2%). The Australian Capital Territory (-0.2%) and Tasmania (-0.2%) fell in trend terms in April 2011.


NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE Release Date
May 2011 4 July 2011
June 2011 3 August 2011
July 2011 1 September 2011
August 2011 5 October 2011
September 2011 3 November 2011
October 2011 1 December 2011



CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

There are no changes in this issue


REVISIONS

There are no revisions to the original estimates. Revisions to seasonally adjusted estimates are due to 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 Paul Slater on Sydney (02) 9268 4581.