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DECEMBER KEY FIGURES

		December 2011	Nov 2011 to Dec 2011
		$m	% change
Turnover at current prices
	Trend	20 955.2	0.2
	Seasonally Adjusted	20 884.7	-0.1

		December Qtr 2011	September Qtr 2011 to December Qtr 2011
		$m	% change
Turnover in volume terms
	Trend	60 750.1	0.4
	Seasonally Adjusted	60 773.2	0.4

Monthly Turnover, Current Prices - Trend Estimate

Quarterly Turnover, in volume terms - Trend estimate

• The trend estimate rose 0.2% in December 2011. This follows a rise of 0.2% in November 2011 and a rise of 0.2% in October 2011.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate fell 0.1% in December 2011. This follows a rise of 0.1% in November 2011 and a relatively unchanged October 2011 (0.0%).
• In trend terms, Australian turnover rose 3.0% in December 2011 compared with December 2010.
• The following industries rose in trend terms in December 2011: Household goods retailing (0.5%), Clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing (0.9%), Food retailing (0.1%), Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services (0.1%) and Department stores (0.1%). Other retailing (-0.2%) fell in trend terms in December 2011.
• The following states and territories rose in trend terms in December 2011: New South Wales (0.2%), Western Australia (0.5%), Victoria (0.1%) and South Australia (0.3%). The Australian Capital Territory (0.0%) was relatively unchanged. Queensland (-0.1%), Tasmania (-0.1%) and the Northern Territory (-0.1%) fell in trend terms in December 2011.

• In volume terms, the trend estimate for Australian turnover rose 0.4% in the December quarter 2011.

• 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.