Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : April 26, 1962

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FEDERAL
APR 30

RESERVE
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 26, 1962

1962

• RlUii.VJND

6f the weekly percentage changes during the Easter season
is affected by the shifting date of the holiday (this year, April 22 and last
year, April 2). Adjustment factors have been developed for this calendar irregularity. For the week ending April 21 the factor is +14; this yields an "adjusted"
year-to-year-change for the United States of + 1 per cent.
Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago
District

Four weeks
One week ending
ending
April 211 April 14iApril 71 March 31 April 21

Jan. 1
to
April 21

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

+23
+19
+11
+11

+23
+24
+35
+17

+22
+22
+22
+26

- 8
0
+ 6
- 4

+15
+16
+17
+12

+
+
+
+

5
6
5
3

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

+22
+15
+14
+11

r+19
r+20
+13
+24

+22
+13
+27
+19

- h.
-7
+ 6
. - 3

+14
+ 9
+15
+11

+
+
+
+

4
5
6
4

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

+22
+ 6
+13
+11

r 0
+10
+ 9
+ 8

+22
. +15
+18
+16

-

U. S. Total

+15

r+17^

+22

- 2

+12 .

* "Adjusted" U.S.

+ 1

r+ 5-

+ 7

+ 8

+ 5

5
6
7
8

+
+
+
+

' + 1
+ 2
+ 4
+ 6

9
6
'8
7

+ 5

U.S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 1947-49=100 if
1962
Mar. 24
Mar. 31
Apr.' 7
Apr. 14
Apr. 21

141
148
156
rl52
165

1961
Mar. 25
Apr. 1
Apr. 8
Apr. 15
Apr. 22

140
151
128
130
144

1960
Mar. 26
Apr. 2
Apr. 9
Apr. 16
Apr. 23

131
143
153
156
146

r—Revised
1/ For description and weekly indexes for the period January 1937 to March 1958
see Federal Reserve Bulletin for April 1958, pp. 412-421.
Weekly indexes at the district and city levels are published by several of the
Federal Reserve Banks.