JANUARY KEY FIGURES
Monthly Turnover, Seasonally adjusted - % change
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JANUARY KEY POINTS
SUSPENSION OF TREND ESTIMATES
- The retail trade trend series have been suspended as at November 2008 as it is not possible to determine the trend in retail turnover through the period affected by the Government's stimulus package and other influences associated with global economic conditions. For further details refer to the December 2008 issue of this publication.
AUSTRALIA
- The seasonally adjusted estimate increased by 0.2% in January 2009. This follows increases of 3.8% in December and 0.4% in November 2008. December 2008 had the largest monthly seasonally adjusted percentage increase since August 2000 following the introduction of the GST.
- In original terms, Australian turnover decreased by 23.0% in January 2009 compared with December 2008. Chains and other large retailers (which are completely enumerated) decreased by 24.6%, while the estimate for 'smaller' retailers decreased by 19.8%. Australian turnover increased by 6.3% in January 2009 compared with January 2008. Chains and other large retailers increased by 10.5%, while the estimate for 'smaller' retailers decreased by 0.6%.
INDUSTRIES
- In seasonally adjusted terms, the following industries had an increase in January 2009 - Food retailing (+1.5%), Clothing and soft good retailing (+0.8%), Other retailing (+0.2%) and Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services (+2.3%). The Department stores (-0.5%) and Household good retailing (-4.0%) industries had declines.
STATES
- In seasonally adjusted terms, the following states had an increase in January 2009 - New South Wales (+1.9%), South Australia (+0.1%), Western Australia (+1.4%) and the Australian Capital Territory (+1.5%). Victoria (-1.8%) and Tasmania (-2.9%) had the largest declines while Queensland had no change.
NOTES
FORTHCOMING ISSUES
ISSUE | Release Date |
February 2009 | 1 April 2009 |
March 2009 | 6 May 2009 |
April 2009 | 1 June 2009 |
May 2009 | 1 July 2009 |
June 2009 | 3 August 2009 |
July 2009 | 9 September 2009 |
CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE
The retail trade trend series have been suspended as at November 2008 as it is not possible to determine the trend in retail turnover through the period affected by the Government's stimulus package and other influences associated with global economic conditions. For further details refer to the December 2008 issue of this publication.
The graph under the Key figures, above, usually shows monthly percentage change in trend terms. As a result of the suspension of the trend series, the graph in this issue shows monthly percentage change in seasonally adjusted terms.
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 and the following additional 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 Neil Hamilton on Canberra (02) 6252 5990.