Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : August 31, 1961

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H.8a

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 31, 1961.
WEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES

Federal Reserve

Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago
One week ending

District

Aug. 261 Aug. 191 Aug. 12iA.ua 5

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

+18
+ 5
+ 5
+ 3

r+
r+
r+
+

4
2
3
3

-

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

+
+
+
+

+
r+
+
-

4
1
2
3

r-

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

+ 3
+12
+12
- 2

- 2
- 1
+ 3
0

+
+
+
+

+ 6

+ 2

U. S. Total

2
2
8
2

5
3
2
1

+ 8
+ 2
+ 9
0

Four weeks
ending
August 26

Jan. 1
to
Aug. 26

+
+
+
+

6
2
3
1

+ 5
+ 2
0
- 1

1 +
1 +
3 +
5 r

8
7
2
0

+
+
+
-

3
2
3
l

+ 2
0
0
- 1

1
2
2
3

+
+
+
-

3
3
1
1

+ 1
+ 4
+ 4
0

+ 1
+ 4
0
+ 1

0

+ 3

+ 3

+ 1

__

U. S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 1947-49=100 if
1961
July
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.

29
5
12
19
26

125
132
131
142
152

I960
July
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.

30
6
13
20
27

122
128
131
139
144

1959
Aug. 1
. Aug.8
Aug. 15
Aug. 22
' Aug.29

121
131
132
132
139

r—Revised. _
1/ For description and weekly indexed 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.