Embargoed until 5:00pm – 09 December 2009
Retail sales, October 2009
Electronic card transactions data for November 2009 published today on the Statistics New Zealand website included some
data that could be used to derive totals for the Retail Trade Survey for October 2009, due for release on Monday 14
December 2009.
To ensure equal access to this information, Statistics New Zealand is releasing Retail Trade Survey totals for October
2009 today, in the table below. The full Retail Trade Survey media release and detailed information will be released as
scheduled on Monday 14 December 2009.
Retail Trade Survey totals for the October 2009 month
/ Core retail / Total retail
Actual sales value – $(million) / 4,127 / 5,467
Change from October 2008 – percent / 2.1 / -0.2
Seasonally adjusted sales value – $(million) / 4,128 / 5,474
Change from September 2009 – percent / 0.5 / 0.0
The time series for these totals will also be available from Infoshare on Statistics New Zealand’s website
www.stats.govt.nz from 6pm tonight.
Geoff Bascand 9 December 2009
Government Statistician
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