Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : April 12, 1962

The full text on this page is automatically extracted from the file linked above and may contain errors and inconsistencies.

FEDERAL

RESERVE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 12, 1962

•J5EKLY /DEPARTMENT STORE SALES
*Interpretation-of the weekly percentage changes during the Easter season is
the shifting date of the holiday (this year, April 22 and last year,
Aprsl 2 ) ^ •"Adjustment factors have been developed for this calendar irregularity.
-For the week ending April 7 the factor is +15; this yields an "adjusted" yearto-year change for the United States of + 7 per cent.
x

j Percent
District

1 year
Jan. 1
to
Aoril 7

Four weeks
One week ending
ending
(April 7lMarch 311March 241 March 17 Aoril 7
!

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

+22
+22
+22
+26

3
0
r+ 6
4
-

- 2
0
- 3
- 4

-

2
5
8
7

+
+
+
+

2
4
4
2

+
+
+
+

2
4
2
1

+23
+13
+27
+18

4
8
6
3
-

- 1
0
+ 4
+ 4

+
+
-

7
3
3
2

+
+
+
+

2
2
9
4

+
+
+
+

2
3
4
2

5
6
7
- 7

+
+

3
6
1
2

-12
- 3
- 3
+ 7

0
+ 2
+ 1
+ 3

- 1
0
+ 3
+ 5

j +22

- 2

+ 1

- 1

+ 4

+ 3

j+ 7

+ 3

+11

+ 6

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis
Minneapolis
K-.nsas City
r..llas .
San Francisco
U, S. Total,
| * "Adjusted" U.S.

+22
! +15
j +13
j +14

-

-

..

U. S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment. 1947-49 = 100 1/
1962
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Apr.

10
17
24
31
7

120
138
141
148
156

1961
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Apr.
Apr.

11
18
25
1
8

128
140
140
151
128

1260
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Apr.
Apr.

12
19
26
2
9

116
129
131
143
153

r—Revised
1/ For description and weekly indexes for the period January 1937 to March 1958
see Federal Reserve Bulletin for April 1953, pp. 412-4-21.
Weekly indexes at the district and city levels are published by several of the
Federal Reserve Banks.