APRIL KEY FIGURES
 | | April 2017 | March 2017 to April 2017 |
| | $m | % change |
|
| Turnover at current prices | | |
| Trend | 25 782.8 | 0.1 |
| Seasonally Adjusted | 25 891.6 | 1.0 |
|
Monthly Turnover, Current Prices - Trend Estimate
| |
APRIL KEY POINTS
CURRENT PRICES
- The trend estimate rose 0.1% in April 2017. This follows a rise of 0.1% in March 2017 and a rise of 0.1% in February 2017.
- The seasonally adjusted estimate rose 1.0% in April 2017. This follows a fall of 0.2% in March 2017 and a relatively unchanged February 2017 (0.0%).
- In trend terms, Australian turnover rose 2.7% in April 2017 compared with April 2016.
- The following industries rose in trend terms in April 2017: Food retailing (0.2%), Other retailing (0.4%), Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services (0.2%), and Department Stores (0.4%). Clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing (-0.4%), and Household goods retailing (-0.1%) fell in trend terms in April 2017.
- The following states and territories rose in trend terms in April 2017: Victoria (0.3%), New South Wales (0.1%), South Australia (0.4%), the Australian Capital Territory (0.3%), and Tasmania (0.1%). Queensland (0.0%) and Western Australia (0.0%) were relatively unchanged. The Northern Territory (-0.1%) fell in trend terms in April 2017.
NOTES
FORTHCOMING ISSUES
| ISSUE | Release Date |
| May 2017 | 4 July 2017 |
| June 2017 | 4 August 2017 |
| July 2017 | 7 September 2017 |
| August 2017 | 5 October 2017 |
| September 2017 | 3 November 2017 |
| October 2017 | 5 December 2017 |
CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE
This issue includes updated online retail turnover estimates for the April 2017 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. For information on seasonal adjustment and trend estimation please refer to the explanatory notes of this publication.
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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