Electronic Card Transactions: August 2012 key facts
Electronic Card Transactions: August 2012 key facts
Changes in the seasonally adjusted value of
transactions (compared with July 2012) were as follows:
• Total electronic card transactions rose 2.4 percent.
• Transactions in the retail industries rose 3.0
percent.
• Transactions in the core retail industries
rose 1.0 percent.
• Fuel had the largest rise, up 10.8
percent ($67 million).
The actual (unadjusted) value of transactions in the core retail series was up 5.1 percent from August 2011.
Attached is information about the statistics released today.
Media release (pdf) Information release (pdf) Tables (xls)
(See attached file: ElectronicCardTransactionsAug12MR.pdf)(See attached file: ElectronicCardTransactionsAug12.pdf)(See attached file: ect-aug12-tables.xls)
ElectronicCardTransactionsAug12MR.pdf
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