JUNE KEY FIGURES

		June 2014	May 2014 to June 2014
		$m	% change
Turnover at current prices
	Trend	23 175.5	0.1
	Seasonally Adjusted	23 197.0	0.6

		June Qtr 2014	March Qtr 2014 to June Qtr 2014
		$m	% change
Turnover in volume terms
	Trend	67 714.3	0.7
	Seasonally Adjusted	67 438.5	-0.2

Monthly Turnover, Current Prices - Trend Estimate

Quarterly Turnover, Volume Terms - Trend Estimate

JUNE KEY POINTS


CURRENT PRICES

• The trend estimate rose 0.1% in June 2014. This follows a rise of 0.1% in May 2014 and a rise of 0.1% in April 2014.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate rose 0.6% in June 2014. This follows a fall of 0.3% in May 2014 and a relatively unchanged (0.0%) April 2014.
• In trend terms, Australian turnover rose 5.3% in June 2014 compared with June 2013.
• The following industries rose in trend terms in June 2014: Food retailing (0.1%), Household goods retailing (0.3%), Other retailing (0.2%) and Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services (0.1%). Clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing (-0.4%) and Department stores (-0.4%) fell in trend terms in June 2014.
• The following states and territories rose in trend terms in June 2014: New South Wales (0.2%), Tasmania (0.2%), South Australia (0.1%) and the Northern Territory (0.4%). Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland were relatively unchanged (0.0%). The Australian Capital Territory (-0.6%) fell in trend terms in June 2014.

VOLUME MEASURES

• In volume terms, the trend estimate for Australian turnover rose 0.7% in the June quarter 2014.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
July 2014	4 September 2014
August 2014	1 October 2014
September 2014	4 November 2014
October 2014	4 December 2014
November 2014	9 January 2015
December 2014	5 February 2015

CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

This issue includes new quarterly measures of total retail turnover per capita. Current price estimates and chain volume measures are presented in original, seasonally adjusted and trend terms. For further detail, see the 'Quarterly measures of total retail turnover per capita' Appendix of this publication. The full time series is available from the Downloads tab of this publication on the ABS website (table 19 and table 20).

Updated online retail turnover estimates for the June 2014 reference month are provided and explained within the appendix section of this publication.

An annual seasonal reanalysis based on estimates up to and including April 2014 identified a number of minor revisions in the previous release of this publication. Quarterly estimates have been updated in this issue to reflect these changes.


REVISIONS

A revision has been applied in this issue to the original estimates for Hardware, Building and Garden Supplies Retailing and Clothing Retailing. Hardware, Building and Garden Supplies Retailing was revised by +$61 million and Clothing Retailing was revised by -$11 million as a result of updates to survey respondent information.

Revisions to seasonally adjusted estimates are due to revisions to original estimates as well as the concurrent methodology for deriving seasonal factors.


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, 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.

INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070 or Amanda Biltoft on Sydney (02) 9268 4642.