Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : October 5, 1961

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FEDERAL
statistical
H.8a

RESERVE

release

-:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 5, 1961

:

Department store sales in September were unchanged from August, after
seasonal adjustment. The"index for September is estimated at 150 per cent of the
1947-49 average.
'

Index of department store sales if
1947-49=100
Adjusted for seasonal variation
Without seasonal adjustment

September

1961
August

@150
el51

July

150
13?

I960
September

151
126

144
145

WEEKLY DEPARTi-iEWT STORE SALES

Federal Reserve
District

Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago
(Eased on retail dollar amounts)
jFour weeks t ' Jan. 1
One week ending
• ending
to
Sent. 30iSent. 23 iSeot.16 £3eot.9 Seat. 30
Sent. 30

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

+
+
+
+

9
6
4
2

r+

2
3
1
3

+
-

5
6
2
7

+
-

+
+
+

Z
2
7
2

r+ 4
+ 4
+ 6
0

+
-

6
4
1
3

+10
+ 4
0
j + 6

0
r+ 6
+11
r+ 9

- 3
+ 6
- 6
+13

j + 5

+ 4

0

\
'

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco
U. S. Total

4
2
2
1

+ 5
+ 1
0
- 1

- 4
+10
- 2
- 3

- 1
+ 3
+ 3

+ 1
0
0
- 1

+
+
+

+
+
+

3
5
7
2

3
1
8
4

- 1

+
-

-

1

.

3
4
1
8

+ 1
+ 4
0
+ 2

+• 2

+ 2

U. S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment. 1947-49=100 2/
I960
19^2
154
Seqt. 3
14?
Sept. 5
148
Sept. 2
Sept. 12 133
Sept. 9
129
Sept. 10 130
Sept. 16 150
Sept. 17 150
Sept. 19 158
Sept. 23 154
Sept. 24 148
Sept. 26 145
Sent. 30 156
Oct. 1
149
Oct. 3
143
r—Revised.
e—Estimated
1/ Monthly indexes refer to daily average sales in calendar month. September figures
estimated from weekly sales.
2/ 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.