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MARCH KEY FIGURES

		March 2013	February 2013 to March 2013
		$m	% change
Turnover at current prices
	Trend	21 854.0	0.4
	Seasonally Adjusted	21 872.3	-0.4

		March Qtr 2013	December Qtr 2012 to March Qtr 2013
		$m	% change
Turnover in volume terms
	Trend	64 838.0	0.9
	Seasonally Adjusted	65 287.1	2.2

Monthly Turnover, Current Prices - Trend Estimate

Quarterly Turnover, in volume terms - Trend estimate

• The trend estimate rose 0.4% in March 2013. This follows a rise of 0.4% in February 2013 and a rise of 0.4% in January 2013.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate fell 0.4% in March 2013. This follows a rise of 1.3% in February 2013 and a rise of 1.3% in January 2013.
• In trend terms, Australian turnover rose 3.3% in March 2013 compared with March 2012.
• The following industries rose in trend terms in March 2013: Food retailing (0.5%), Household goods retailing (0.6%), Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services (0.4%), Other retailing (0.3%), Department stores (0.4%) and Clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing (0.1%).
• The following states and territories rose in trend terms in March 2013: New South Wales (0.5%), Queensland (0.6%), Victoria (0.4%), Western Australia (0.2%), the Australian Capital Territory (0.7%), Tasmania (0.5%) and the Northern Territory (0.2%). South Australia (0.0%) was relatively unchanged in trend terms in March 2013.

• In volume terms, the trend estimate for Australian turnover rose 0.9% in the March quarter 2013.

• 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.