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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 24, 1963

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SKLt -DEPARTMENT oTCRE SALES
Percentage change from corresponding periods a year ago
1

One week ending

District

' Jan. 19lJan. 121|Jan. 5l*Dec. 29
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3
- 8

+1

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+ 3
+ 7
+ 5

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+ ?

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+12 *

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

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Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco
U. S. Total

8

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1

+

9

6

Four weeks
ending
Jan. 19

+11
+ 4
r+ 4
r+ 4

+46
+37
+29
+27

+14
+10
+ 7
+10

+
+
+
+

3
4
3
1

r+ 8
+22
+ 8
r+26

+ 9
+12
+12r+l?

+32
+36
+40
+28

+13
+34
+16
+19

+
+
+
+

3
7
6
5

+ 5
+ 2
z+15
+ 7

r+ 4
+12
+10
+11

+28
+24
+22
+37

+11
+14
+ 9
+16

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+
+
+

2
3
46

+ 9

+10

+34

+15

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5
1
2
6

U. o. weekly sales index, without seasonal adjustment, 1957-59=100
1962
Dec.
Dec.
1963 Jan.
Jan.
Jan.

1961
22
29
5
12
19

271
121
91
99
95

Year
1962

Dec.
Dec.
19o2 Jan.
Jan.
Jan.

1/

I960
23
30
6
13
20

259
90
8 3
91
90

Dec. 24
. Dec. 31
1961 Jan. 7
Jan. 14
Jan. 21

230
84
85
93
78

r—Revised
1/ Monthly and weekly indexes of department store sales have been revised. For
description of revision of monthly indexes see Federal Reserve Bulletin for July
1962. a description of revision of weekly indexes appears in Bulletin for
August 1962.
Weekly indexes at the district and city levels are published by several of the
Federal Reserve Banks.
* — T h e large percentage changes shown for this week are due mainly to the fact
that Christmas this year fell on Tuesday, giving the week one pre-Christmas shoppings
day compared with none in the corresponding week last year.