Retail Trade - April 2013

In April, sales in retail trade including the automotive segment after seasonal adjustment decreased by 1.6% at constant prices, month-on-month. Working days adjusted sales decreased by 0.2%, y-o-y. The y-o-y increase of non-adjusted sales by 1.5% was contributed to by the development in the automotive segment, sale of non-food goods, and also higher number of working days.

Seasonally adjusted sales in retail trade including sale and repair of motor vehicles decreased in April at constant prices by 1.6%, month-on-month. Year-on-year, working days adjusted sales decreased by 0.2%. Year-on-year growth of non-adjusted sales by 1.5% was influenced at the higher number of working days (+1) by an increase of sales in the automotive segment and at non-food goods and automotive fuel; food sale had an opposite effect (see Table 2).

Seasonally adjusted sales for sale and repair of motor vehicles (CZ-NACE 45) increased by 1.4% at constant prices, m-o-m. Year-on-year, working days adjusted sales increased by 2.7%. Non-adjusted sales increased by 5.7%, year-on-year; for repair it was by 7.5% and for sale of motor vehicles (including spare parts) by 5.3%. Sales increase was contributed to by a later change of winter tyres for summer set (due to the weather development), which influenced both their sale and repairs.

In retail trade including sale of automotive fuel (CZ-NACE 47) seasonally adjusted sales at constant prices decreased by 3.2%, m-o-m; working days adjusted sales dropped by 1.4%, y-o-y. Non-adjusted sales dropped by 0.3%, y-o-y; for food it was -6.0%, while for non-food goods and automotive fuel they increased (+3.7% and +2.6%, respectively). Food sales in April were partially influenced also by Easter shopping already in March.

The overall decrease of sales was influenced the most by lower sale of food in both non-specialised and specialised stores (-5.6% and -11.6%, respectively). Sales decrease was recorded in sale of dispensing chemist, medical and orthopaedic goods, cosmetic and toilet articles in specialised stores (-0.8%) and retail sale of other household equipment in specialised stores (-0.3%). On the contrary, retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet was successful (growth of sales by 23.7%) as well as retail sale of clothing and footwear in specialised stores (+12.6%), retail sale of cultural and recreation goods in specialised stores (+7.3%), and information and communication equipment in specialised stores (+6.8%).

The price deflator (CZ-NACE 47) related to the corresponding period of the previous year (VAT excluded) was 99.4%. The highest y-o-y growth of prices was recorded for food and dispensing chemist, medical and orthopaedic goods, cosmetic and toilet articles, while in most of non-food goods decreasing of prices continued, which was the most marked in the assortment of information and communication equipment.

International comparison of retail sales development in the EU Member States is available at: ( http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home).

Notes:
Data for January 2012 to March 2013 have been revised in accordance with the CZSO revision policy; data for April 2013 are preliminary; final data for all months of 2013 will be available in June 2014 at the latest.
Responsible head at the CZSO: Marie Boušková, phone number (+420) 274 052 935, e-mail: marie.bouskova@czso.cz
Contact person: Marcela Mašátová, phone number (+420) 274 052 681, e-mail: marcela.masatova@czso.cz
Method of data acquisition: direct survey of the CZSO (SP1-12)
End of data collection: 28 May 2013
End of data processing: 31 May 2013
Related outputs: Base and y-o-y indices since 2000 and 2001 are available in time series ( /csu/czso/sales_indices_monthly_retail_trade_hotels_and_restaurants_time_series )
Next News Release will be published on: 4 July 2013

Attachments

⇩ amal060513.doc
Annexes:
⇩ Table 1 Retail Trade, Sale and Repair of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles
⇩ Table 2 Sales in main assortment types of stores (year-on-year changes, decomposition of increase - year-on-year)
⇩ Graph 1 Retail trade excl. retail sale of automotive fuel (fixed base indices)
⇩ Graph 2 Retail trade turnover (CZ-NACE 47) - international comparison