Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : March 26, 1959

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE. SYSTEM «

H.8a

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 26, 1959.
WEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES
Percentage change from corresponding p e r i o d a year ago
(Based on r e t a i l d o l l a r amounts)]/
Four weeks 1 Jan. 1
One week ending
(
to
ending
I March 21
Mar. 21| Mar. llj.j Mar. 71 Feb. 28*
March 21

Federal Reserve
District

+ 6
h
+11
+ 6

Boston
• New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

+29
+16
+3k
+16

-10
r- 7
+ h
r+ 7

0
- 1
+ 2
+ 6

+10
- k
+ 8
+11

+ 7
+ 1
+11
+10

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
S t . Louis

+38
+10
+10
+15

r+10
r+ U
+15
+18

- 1
+ 6
+ 2
+10

+12
+ 8
+17
+12

+lii
+ 7
+11
+1U

+12
+ 7
+ 8
+10

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

+1U
+17
+12
+16

+ 9
+19
+12
+18

r- 5
+ 7
+ 8
+13

+11
+17
+13
+ 5

+ 7
+15
+11
+13

+ 6
+13
+10
+13 '

+17

+ 9

+ 5

+10

+10

+ 9

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U. S. Total

+

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U. S. -weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 19kl-h9
1959
Feb.
Feb.
Mar.
Mar.
Mar,

21
28
7
1U
21

109
118
118
12U
137

1958
Feb. 22
Mar. 1
Mar. 8
Mar. 15
Mar. 22

88
107
112
lilt
117.

1957
Feb. 23
Mar. 2
Mar. 9
Mar. 16
Mar. 23

-

100-/
107
106
105
lib
121

r—Revised.
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1 / During March and A p r i l changes from a year ago r e f l e c t i n p a r 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 6 while t h i s year i t w i l l be on March 29. For t h i s reason
i t Us estimated t h a t i n comparison with l a s t year an allowance should be made f o r
an i n c r e a s e i n s a l e s of about 2 per cent f o r t h e month of March as a whole and a
corresponding decrease f o r t h e month of A p r i l . These allowances apply t o the
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 period January 1937 t o March 1958 see
Federal^Reserve B u l l e t i n f o r A p r i l 1958, p p . Ul2-lj.21.
Weekly indexes a t the d i s t r i c t and c i t y l e v e l s are published by s e v e r a l of the
Federal Reserve Banks.
* Comparisons are a f f e c t e d by s t o r e closings i n some c i t i e s i n observance of
Washington's b i r t h d a y , which occurred one week l a t e r t h i s y e a r .