Retail trade - November 2023

Sales in retail trade increased, y-o-y

12.01.2024
Code: 120019-23
 

Sales in retail trade increased in real terms by 0.9%, year‑on‑year (y-o-y) in November; in the month-on-month (m-o-m) comparison, they increased by 1.0%. Sales for sale and repair of motor vehicles increased by 4.7%, y-o-y; in the m-o-m comparison it was by 0.8%.

Sales in retail trade, except of motor vehicles1) increased in real terms by 1.0%, month‑on‑month, in November. Sales for sale of automotive fuel increased by 3.7%, sales for sale of food by 1.0%, and sales for sale of non-food goods by 0.5%.

Sales in retail trade increased in real terms by 0.9%, year-on-year, in November. Sales for sale of automotive fuel increased by 3.7% and sales for sale of non-food goods by 1.3%, whereas sales for sale of food decreased by 0.7%.

“Sales in retail trade adjusted for price effects, after having been decreasing for eighteen months, recorded a year-on-year growth in November. Sale of non-food goods and automotive fuel contributed to the increase. However, sales for sale of food continued to decrease,” Jana Gotvaldová, Head of the Trade, Transport, and Services Statistics Unit of the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO), says.

Sales in dispensing chemist, retail sale of medical and orthopaedic goods in specialised stores increased by 9.9%, year-on-year; in retail sale of cosmetic and toilet articles in specialised stores sales increased by 7.2%, in retail sale of information and communication equipment in specialised stores by 6.6%, and in retail sale of cultural and recreation goods in specialised stores by 0.3%. On the other hand, sales decreased in retail sale of other household equipment in specialised stores by 6.5% and in retail sale of clothing, footwear and leather goods in specialised stores by 6.2%. Sales in retail sale of food, beverages and tobacco in specialised stores decreased by 1.4% and in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating by 0.7%. In other retail sale in non‑specialised stores sales increased by 9.3%. In retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet2) sales increased by 5.6%.

Sales for sale and repair of motor vehicles3) increased in real terms by 0.8%, m-o-m. In the year-on-year comparison, sales increased by 4.7%. Sales for repair of motor vehicles increased by 5.7% and sales for sale of motor vehicles (including spare parts) by 4.4%.

International comparison of retail sales development in Member States of the EU is available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/short-term-business-statistics/publications.

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1) CZ-NACE 47 – retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
2) CZ-NACE 4791 – retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet
3) CZ-NACE 45 – wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Notes:
All data in the text of the news release are at constant prices. The year-on-year development is published after having been adjusted for the influence of the number of working days (calendar effects). Month on‑month rates have also been seasonally adjusted.
Enterprises are classified to the economic activity according to their principal (prevailing) activity, which is such an activity, from which the enterprise gets the highest value added.
Data for October 2023 have been revised in accordance with the CZSO Data revision policy. Data for November 2023 are preliminary; final data for all months of 2023 will be published in March 2024.
Methodology: https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/methodology_monthly_sales_indices_in_trade_hotels_and_restaurants

Responsible head at the CZSO: Pavel Vančura, Director of the Trade, Transport, Services, Tourism, and Environmental Statistics Department, phone number: (+420) 274 052 096, (+420) 732 348 337, e-mail: pavel.vancura@czso.cz
Contact person: Jana Gotvaldová, Head of the Trade, Transport, and Services Statistics Unit, phone number: (+420) 274 052 691, (+420) 735 130 284, e-mail: jana.gotvaldova@czso.cz
Method of data acquisition: direct survey of the CZSO (“SP 1-12”)
End of data collection: 3 January 2024
End of data processing: 8 January 2024
Related outputs: time series in the Public database: (https://vdb.czso.cz/vdbvo2/faces/en/index.jsf?page=statistiky#katalog=31029).

Next news release will be published on: 7 February 2024

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  • Annexes:
  • Table 1 Retail trade and sale and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (year-on-year indices, constant prices, adjusted for calendar effects)
  • Chart 1 Sales in retail trade except of motor vehicles and motorcycles (base indices, constant prices)
  • Chart 2 Sales in retail trade except of motor vehicles and motorcycles (year-on-year indices, constant prices)
  • Chart 3: Sales in retail trade except of motor vehicles and motorcycles – international comparison (base indices, seasonally adjusted, constant prices)
  • Chart 4: Sales in retail trade – contribution of the selected CZ-NACE divisions to year-on-year change (adjusted for calendar effects)
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Published: 12.01.2024
The data are valid as of the release date of the publication.


Contact: Information Services Unit - Headquarters, tel.: +420 274 056 789, email: infoservis@czso.cz