Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : April 18, 1957

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
A p r i l 1 8 , 1957

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Federal Reserve
District

WEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES
Percentage change from corresponding p e r i o d a ; repr ago
(Based on r e t a i l , d o l l a r amounts) :
Four weeks " Jan. 1
One week ending
to
ending
Apr. 13
Apr. 13
Apr. 131 Apr c 61 Mar. 30 I Mar. 23

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

+ 7
+10
+11
- 2

+ k
+ 8
r+19
+13

-19
- 7
0
- 9

+27
+15
+ 7
c-13

+2
+6
+9
-k

+1
+U
+1
-2

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
S t . Louis

+17
+17
+ 8
+ 9

+12
+ h
+ 5
+10

- 7
-11
- 2
-10

- 3
- 1
+ 3
0

+u
+1
+U
+2

+3
+1
+2
-1

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San F r a n c i s c o

+ 1
+ 7
+ 1
+ k

r- 1
+ 1
- 2
r+lU

+ 5
-13
-17

-

1
h
2
7

+1
-3
-5
-1

+1
—1
-2
0

+ 7

r+ 8

- 8

+ 1

+2

+1

j

U. S . T o t a l

•

U. S . weekly i n d e x , -without s e a s o n a l adjustment, 19k7-1:9=100 2 /
1957
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Apr.
Apr.

16
23
30
6
13

z

107
113
112
113
122

1956
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Apr.
Apr.

17
2h
31
7
Ik

105
112
122
10U
11U

1955
Mar. 19
Mar. 26
Apr. 2
Apr. 9
Apr. 16

108
103
llli
122
103

r—Revised.
c—Corrected.
1 / During March and A p r i l changes from a year ago r e f l e c t the f a c t t h a t l a s t year
E a s t e r was on A p r i l 1 w h i l e t h i s year i t w i l l be on A p r i l 21, For t h i s reason
i t i s e s t i m a t e d t h a t i n comparison w i t h l a s t y e a r an allowance should be made f o r a
decrease i n s a l e s of about 8 per c e n t f o r t h e month of March as a whole and a c o r responding i n c r e a s e f o r t h e month of A p r i l . These allowances apply t o t h e f i g u r e s
f o r t h e United S t a t e s .
2 / For d e s c r i p t i o n and weekly indexes f o r t h e p e r i o d January 1937 t o March 1952 s e e
F e d e r a l Reserve- B u l l e t i n f o r A p r i l 1952, pp. 3 5 9 - 3 6 2 . Indexes f o r t h e p e r i o d A p r i l
1952 t o dalbe may be obtained upon r e q u e s t from t h e D i v i s i o n of Research and S t a tistics. (
Weekly indexes a t t h e d i s t r i c t and c i t y l e v e l s are p u b l i s h e d by s e v e r a l of the
Federal-Reserve Banks•