Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : March 15, 1962

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FEDERAL

RESERVE

statistical
H.8a

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 15, 1962

19

WEEKLY? DEPARTMENT STORE SALES

Interpretation: :of: the weekly percentage changes during the Easter season is
affected%y-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 March 10, the factor is - 4; this yields ah ":adjtisted" yearto-year change for the United States of - .2 per cent.

Federal Reserve
District

Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago
(Based on retail dollar amounts)
Jan, 1
Four weeks
One week ending
to
ending
March
10
March 101March 31Feb. 241Feb. 17 March 10

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

- 3
- 8
-18
-17

-13
r- 9
- 8
0

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St.. Louis

-21
-11
- 1
-12

rr-

5
1
1
4

-

Minneapolis
Kansas City3
Dallas
San Francisco

+
+

+
r+

--t' U. S. Total

1
1
3
1

- 6

7
2
3
4

-11
- 6
-10
- 4

4
3
8
l

- 3
+20
+ 8
+ 4

- 8
+1
0
- 3

4
6
2
1

-7
0
+ 8
+11

+20
+11
+ 8
+13

r- 2

- 2

+ 6

-18
r- 4
-11
- 3

r+

!

+ 2
+ 4
+ 1
0
1

+
+
+
+

2
4
2
1

2
1
4
6

- 1
0
+ 4
+ 6

- 1

+ 3

+
+
+

-

U. S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 1947-49 = 100 l/
Feb. 10
Feb. 19
Feb. 24

Feb. 18
Feb. 25

Mar. 10

Mar. 11

1260
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Mar.
Mar.

13
20
27
5
12

115
107
110
98
116

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.