Turnover of trade

Trade 2014
Turnover of trade
2014, July
Retail trade flash estimate: sales fell by 0.7 per cent
year-on-year in July
According to Statistics Finland’s retail trade flash estimate, retail trade sales decreased by 0.7
per cent in July 2014 from July 2013. Over the same time period, the volume of sales, from which
the impact of prices has been eliminated, went down by 0.6 per cent. In daily consumer goods
trade, sales grew by 2.0 per cent in July and the volume of sales by 1.7 per cent from the
respective period of the year before.
Development of value and volume of retail trade sales, July 2014, %
(TOL 2008)
There were 27 weekday trading days1) in July 2014, which is the same as in July 2013.
According to the Business Register, the share of daily consumer goods of turnover in retail trade was 47.6
per cent in 2012.
1) Weekday trading days refer to the weekdays of a calendar month (Monday to Saturday) excluding mid-week holidays.
Helsinki 26.8.2014
Quoting is encouraged provided Statistics Finland is acknowledged as the source.
The retail trade flash estimate is based on a sample covering, on the average, 60 per cent of retail trade
turnover. Data on trade sales by industry will next be released on 12 September 2014.
Flash estimates on retail trade are published at a lag of just under one month from the end of the statistical
reference month. The preliminary data on motor vehicle, wholesale and retail trade based on a larger
sample will be published at a lag of roughly six weeks from the end of the statistical reference month and
the revised data based on total data are published at a lag of roughly ten weeks.
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Contents
Tables
Appendix tables
Appendix table 1. Development of value and volume of retail trade sales, July 2014, (TOL 2008)..........................4
Revisions in these statistics.........................................................................................................................................5
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Appendix tables
Appendix table 1. Development of value and volume of retail trade sales, July 2014, (TOL 2008)
Index
Year-on-year change in the latest
1)
Cumulative year-on-year change, %
1)
month, %
07/2014 07/2014
Retail trade (47)
Daily consumer goods
trade (4711, 472)
01-07/2014
Value
115,5
-0,7
-0,6
Volume
109,2
-0,6
-0,9
Value
126,3
2,0
0,9
Volume
111,8
1,7
0,1
1) Year-on-year change compares the value for an examined time period to the value for the corresponding time period twelve
months back.
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Revisions in these statistics
The data of the statistics have become revised according to the table below. For more information about
data revisions, see Section 3 of the quality description (only in Finnish).
1)
Revisions to data on annual changes in retail trade
Time of publishing
2014
01
47 Retail trade, Flash estimate, %
except of motor
1st release, %
vehicles and
Latest release (2014-08-26), %
motorcycles
Revision, percentage point
Retail sale in
Flash estimate, %
non-specialised
1st release, %
stores (4711,
Latest release (2014-08-26), %
472)
Revision, percentage point
02
03
04
05
2,6 -0,3 -1,5 2,3 -1,4
2,1 -0,4 -1,5 1,8 -1,0
0,2 -1,1 -1,2 2,4 -2,3
-2,4 -0,8
0,3 0,1 -0,9
4,9
1,3 -3,8 6,4
0,5
4,3
0,8 -3,5 6,4
0,6
3,5
1,1 -4,5 6,7 -0,1
-1,4 -0,2 -0,7 0,3 -0,6
1) The revision describes the difference of annual change percentages between the flash estimate and the latest release.
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