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SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ESTIMATES
ORIGINAL ESTIMATES
VOLUME MEASURES
NOTES FORTHCOMING ISSUES
CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE Quarterly chain volume data are shown in tables 14 and 15 of this issue.
FOOD RETAILING The rate of growth in the trend estimate has been slowing since July 2005 with weak growth for the last three months. In December 2005, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory had weak growth with all other states having had a decline in the trend estimate. DEPARTMENT STORES There has been a decline in the trend estimate for five months. All published states, except the Australian Capital Territory (no change), had a decline in the trend estimate in December 2005 with New South Wales (nine months) and Victoria (five months) having been in decline the longest. CLOTHING AND SOFT GOOD RETAILING There has been a decline in the trend estimate for three months. New South Wales, Victoria (both four months), Queensland (one month) and South Australia (two months) have had a decline in the trend estimate. HOUSEHOLD GOOD RETAILING There has been weak trend growth for seven months. Victoria and South Australia have had a decline in the trend estimate for at least six months while all other states, except New South Wales, have had at least five months of moderate or strong growth. RECREATIONAL GOOD RETAILING There has been a decline in the trend estimate for eight months. Queensland, South Australia, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory have had no change or a decline in the trend estimate for three or more months. Victoria has had three months of weak growth while Western Australia and Tasmania have had strong growth for four or more months. OTHER RETAILING After a decline in the trend estimate for 13 months, there was no change in December 2005. Victoria (seven months), Western Australia (14 months) and the Australian Capital Territory (two months) have had a decline in the trend estimate. After 16 months of no change or a decline in the trend estimate New South Wales had weak growth in December 2005. TOTAL RETAIL (EXCLUDING HOSPITALITY AND SERVICES) Total retail (excluding Hospitality and services) has had no change for three months. Over the last eight months, the rate of trend growth for Total retail (excluding Hospitality and services) has been slower than Total industries (including Hospitality and services). HOSPITALITY AND SERVICES There has been 11 months of moderate or strong growth. New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory have had strong growth for three, 12 and five months respectively, while Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia have had a decline in the trend estimate for three or more months. STATE TRENDS MONTHLY SEASONALLY ADJUSTED AND TREND ESTIMATES NEW SOUTH WALES There has been weak trend growth for more than 12 months. Department stores and Clothing and soft good retailing have had a decline in the trend estimate for nine and four months respectively. The rate of growth in the Food industry has been slowing since August 2005 with weak growth in December 2005. VICTORIA There has been a decline in the trend estimate for five months. Food retailing and Recreational good retailing have had weak trend growth for two and three months respectively. All other industries have had a decline in the trend estimate for at least three months with Other retailing (seven months) and Household good retailing (six months) having been in decline the longest. QUEENSLAND After nine months of moderate growth in the trend, there was weak growth in December 2005. Department stores, Clothing and soft good retailing and Recreational good retailing have had a decline in the trend estimate for four, two and eight months respectively. Growth in the trend estimate for Food retailing has been slowing since July 2005 with a decline in the trend estimate in December 2005. SOUTH AUSTRALIA There has been a decline in the trend estimate for four months. All industries, except Other retailing, had a decline in the trend estimate in December 2005. Household good retailing (11 months), Hospitality and services (six months) and Department stores (four months) have been in decline the longest. WESTERN AUSTRALIA Growth in the trend estimate has been slowing since July 2005, with no change in the trend in December 2005. Food retailing, Department stores, Other retailing and Hospitality and services have had a decline in the trend estimate for one, four, 14 and four months respectively. All other industries have had moderate or strong growth for at least three months. TASMANIA There has been moderate growth in the trend estimate for three months. Household good retailing and Recreational good retailing having had strong growth for seven and ten months respectively. Clothing and soft good retailing and Hospitality and services had moderate growth in December 2005. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.
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