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7?U.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 7, 1963

G.7.4.2
MONTHLY DEPARTMENT STORE STOCKS
(Based on retail dollar amounts)
JUNE 1963

The department store stocks index for June is estimated
at 122 per cent of the 1957-59 average, up 1 point from last
month and up 3 points from June a year ago.

Federal Reserve
District

105
121

121
rl20
112
121

109
107
106
111

1
1
+ 2
1
-

+ 3
+ 4. 1

119
117
121
117

pill
118
122
115

119
124
127
119

112
109
117
111

+
+
+
+

1
1
2
2

-1
+ 9
+ 4

114
114
114
127

108
P 113
111
125

113
118
116
130

104
109
107

+ 1
- 2
0
2

+ 6
+ 3
+ 2

0

+ 3

118
118
111
119

120
rll9
rl09
120

115
114
113
117

112

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

pll8
127
126
122

117
125
124
119

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

116
pll8
118
129

rll4
120
118
132

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

Percentage
change June
1963 from*
Year :
Month
ago
ago

Index numbers
(Average end-of-month stocks 1957- 59==100
Unadjusted
Seasonally adjusted
1963
1 1962
1962
1963
j
May
| June
May
June
~June !
June

111

—

122

+2

+ 5
+ 3

I
United States

| P122

121

118

IpH7

122

112

*—Based on seasonally adjusted indexes, p—Preliminary
r—Revised
Note:—Indexes are based on value of stocks at end of month. For description of
the series see Federal Reserve Bulletin for July 1962, pp. 803-808. Back data
may be obtained from the Division of Administrative Services. Indexes aor the most
recent thirteen-month period are shown regularly in the Bulletin.