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APRIL KEY FIGURES

		April 2012	Mar 2012 to Apr 2012
		$m	% change
Turnover at current prices
	Trend	21 207.9	0.3
	Seasonally Adjusted	21 212.4	-0.2

Monthly Turnover, Current Prices - Trend Estimate

• The trend estimate rose 0.3% in April 2012. This follows a rise of 0.3% in March 2012 and a rise of 0.3% in February 2012.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate fell 0.2% in April 2012. This follows a rise of 1.1% in March 2012 and a rise of 0.2% February 2012.
• In trend terms, Australian turnover rose 3.1% in April 2012 compared with April 2011.
• The following industries rose in trend terms in April 2012: Food retailing (0.4%), Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services (1.0%), Other retailing (0.5%), Clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing (0.3%) and Department stores (0.3%). Household goods retailing (-0.4%) fell in trend terms in April 2012.
• The following states and territories rose in trend terms in April 2012: Queensland (0.6%), Western Australia (0.7%), New South Wales (0.2%), South Australia (0.3%), the Australian Capital Territory (0.8%), Tasmania (0.1%) and the Northern Territory (0.2%). Victoria (0.0%) was relatively unchanged in trend terms in April 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.