Full text of G.17.2 Retail Instalment Credit at Furniture and Household Appliance Stores : August 1, 1945

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Retail' I n s t a ^ e n t C r g d i t I
at Furniture, -Household ApjjHSrwe7 and Jewelry
Jun6l945

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Instalment accounts outstanding at furniture, household: appliance-,

and jewelry stores at the end of June showed iittlV. change from the R e ceding month.

Furniture store accounts/receivable were in

volume-.as a year earlier, while at jewelry stores the.amount outstanding on
June 30 was about one-tenth higher t M n on the corresponding date .of 1944. .
•The June collection ratio for household appliance stores increased
four points f r o m t b s .high May level to 44 per cent, whereas the .ratio for
furniture stores was unchanged at 23 .per. cent.

At jewelry stores, collections

during the month were 32 per. cent-of accounts outstanding on the first'of
the. Inonth, as compared with 33 per. cent in the previous month.




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Instalment Accounts Outstanding and Collection Ratios
Accounts outstanding at end of month
December 31, 1939 = 100
Household
J eweiry
Furniture
appliance,
stores
stores
stores

Month'

1945

Collection ratios' l /
•Furniture
...stores

.Household
appliance
stores

Jewelry
stores

•

• May
June'
-vuly
August
September
• October . •
• November' .
December

55
5.3
51
50'
48
48
47
48

26.

23:
19
17
15
13
11

10

49
48
46'
45
-45
46
50
68.

20

22
21
22
22
21
22
23

21
22
23

.22

• 2'2

21 "

21
21".

•33;
33
• 34
34
3337
39
55.

- 1944
: January - '
Febru ary
J£arch; -April May
June
:
July ,
August
September
'October
November
December .

44
42
: 41
41
42"
42
. 42.
"41
.42.
- 45
45 „
48.

56.
.52
- 53..
49
47.
4-5
44 »
4344:
45'
497.1

-44:.
43
-4242'
42 '
42

r62>55 '
51
r-19
r5050

39

31
.31
' 34
28
. 30
30
31
3132
34
34
49.

35
32
36
36
,40
.44

r29
r28
r32
,r30
r33"
32,

' 22

20 .

?22

20.
23
23
25
24
23
24
.24
26
24.
23

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26

. 26

•26 .
28
- 29
52
.33
36
37;

' " 1945 .
January .
February :
Mirch '
April ' ."
May
.
- J-uns

21.
21-

24

,

22 .

23 V
23..;

r - Kevised.
1J' Instalment' collections during month as P'.r cent.of-accounts outstanding' at
beginning of month.