Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : April 25, 1963

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FEDERAL

RESERVE

statistical
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 25, 19&3

H.8a

-* Interpretation of the weekly percentage changes during the Easter
5e as;on«i-s~affeeted by the shifting date of the t^UJ-day (this year, April 14,
last year, April 22). Adjustment factors hav6 been developed for this calendar
irregularity and will be applied for 7 weekly periods, from the March 23 week
through the May 4 week. For the week ending April 2C, the factor is -19; this
yields an "adjusted" year-to-year change for the United States of +7 per cent.
Four-week and year-to-date cumulatives are also shown on an adjusted basis.
WEEKLY pEPARTMENT ST ORE-SALES- ^
Percentage change from corresponding periods a year ago
Federal Reserve

Four weeks
One week ending

District
Apr. 2.01 Apr. 131 Apr. 61 Mar. 30

to
Apr. 20

r+ 6

?

+ 2
0
- 5
+ 1

+
+
-

r+13
r+15
+11
+12

+13+20
+ 5
r+13

+ 8
+14
+ 7
+ 8

+ 3
+12
+ 4
+ 6

+ 4
+10
+ 4
+ 4

-10
- 9
- 9
- 7-

+23
+16
r+24
+11

+ 3
+12
r+17
- 1

+15
+ 8
r+10
C

+ 7
+ 6
+10
+ l

+
+
+
+

-12

+11

+ 7

+ 3

+ 3

+ 7

+ 7

+ 4

+ 5

+ 4

-17
-16
-24
-15

+ 9
+ 6
0
+ 4

Richmond
'Atlanta,
Chicago
St. Louis

-19
- 5
- 6
- 7

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

*!!Adjusted" U.S.

Apr. 2C

+ 9
+ 3
0
+ 8

Boston
New York•
Philadelphia
Cleveland

U.S. Total

Jan. 1

eiidirig

+ 9
+ 6

+

.. |
+ 7

3
1
2
1

5
5
4
5

U..2. weekly sales index, without seasonal adjustment, 1957-59=100 1 /
1963

Mar.
Mar.
Apr.
Apr.
Apr,

23
30
6
13
20

106
113
120
121
104

1962

Mar.
Mar.
Apr.
Apr.
Apr-.

24 ~ 101
106
31
112
7
14
109
118 .
21

1961

M, ,
Apr,,
Apr.,
Apr,,
Apr.,

25

1
8
15
22/

101

109
92
94
104

r—Revised
l/ For description of monthly indexes see Federal Reserve Bulletin for July 1962.
L description of weekly indexes appears in Bulletin for August 1962.
Weekly indexes at the district and city levels are published by several of the
for
FRASER
Federal
Reserve Banks.

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