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May 2008 compared with April 2008 Volume of retail trade up by 1.2% in euro area Up by 1.3% in EU27

/noticias.info/ In May 2008, compared with April 2008, the volume of retail trade1 grew by 1.2% in the euro area2 (EA15) and by 1.3% in the EU272. In April3 retail trade fell by 0.6% and 0.4% respectively.

In May 20084, compared with May 2007, the retail sales index rose by 0.2% in the euro area and by 2.0% in the EU27.

Monthly changes

In May 2008, compared with April 2008, “food, drinks and tobacco” increased by 0.5% in the euro area and by 0.8% in the EU27. The non food sector gained 1.7% and 1.6% respectively.

Among the Member States for which data are available, total retail trade rose in eight, fell also in eight and remained unchanged in Bulgaria and Slovenia. The highest increases were observed in Luxembourg (+4.6%), the United Kindom (+2.2%) and Austria (+1.6%), and the largest decreases in Lithuania and Romania (both
-6.3%) and Latvia (-2.4%).

Annual changes

In May 2008, compared to May 2007, retail trade of “food, drinks and tobacco” fell by 1.4% in the euro area and by 0.1% in the EU27. The non food sector grew by 1.1% and 3.6% respectively.

Among the Member States for which data are available, total retail trade rose in thirteen Member States and fell in five. The highest increases were observed in the United Kindom (+7.2%), Lithuania (+7.0%) and Romania (+6.8%), and the largest decreases in Estonia, Spain and Latvia (all -5.1%).

These first estimates come from Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities.
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1. Based on data adjusted for working days and seasonal effects.

The seasonally adjusted euro area and EU series are calculated by aggregating the working day adjusted series from individual Member States and performing an adjustment for seasonal effects on these series. Therefore the European seasonally adjusted figures for total retail trade are based directly on the working day adjusted series coming from the Member States and not on an aggregation of the seasonally adjusted indices from the Member States. The euro area and EU seasonally adjusted growth rates might differ from the weighted growth rates of the individual Member States. This procedure also implies that the aggregation of total retail trade is not directly based on the published details (food, non-food).

For the methodology, see News Releases 47/2000 of 12 April 2000 and 33/2004 of 5 March 2004. For definitions of published sectors see News Release 103/2001 of 3 October 2001. Retail sale not in stores 52.6 (except for mail orders) and retail sale of second-hand goods 52.5 are not published as separate sectors as they are not required as such by the STS-Regulation. They are however included in the ”non food products” aggregate.

1. The euro area (EA15) consists Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia and Finland.

The EU27 includes Belgium (BE), Bulgaria (BG), the Czech Republic (CZ), Denmark (DK), Germany (DE), Estonia (EE), Ireland (IE), Greece (EL), Spain (ES), France (FR), Italy (IT), Cyprus (CY), Latvia (LV), Lithuania (LT), Luxembourg (LU), Hungary (HU), Malta (MT), the Netherlands (NL), Austria (AT), Poland (PL), Portugal (PT), Romania (RO), Slovenia (SI), Slovakia (SK), Finland (FI), Sweden (SE) and the United Kingdom (UK).

3. Data of previous months have been revised compared to those issued in the News Release 79/2008 of 4 June 2008, when the figures published for April 2008 were -0.6% in the euro area and -0.4% in the EU27 for the monthly variations, and
-2.9% in the euro area and -0.8% in the EU27 for the annual variations.

4. Based on data adjusted for working days. notas_de_prensa_archivo