FIRST RELEASE

CROATIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS
10000 ZAGREB, ILICA 3, PHONE: +385 1 4806-111, P.O.B. 80, CROATIA

ISSN 1334-0565

 

YEAR: XLVI.

ZAGREB, 8 APRIL, 2009

NUMBER: 4.1.1/2.

 

 

OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

 

RETAIL TRADE1)
FEBRUARY 2009

 

In February 2009, the total turnover of all business entities engaged in this activity, irrespective of their prevailing activity, was nominally by 3.7% and really by 4.2% lower than in January 2009.

 

As compared to February 2008, it was nominally by 16.6% and really by 19.1% lower.

 

From the cumulative point of view, the turnover in January and February of this year was nominally by 14.2% lower than in the same period of the last year; which is really by 16.5% lower.

 

In February 2009, the retail trade turnover realised by all business entities with retail trade as a prevailing activity was nominally by 4.0% and really by 4.5% lower than in January 2009. The turnover they generated in February from the retailing activity was by 5.7% lower then in January 2009. Really, it was by 6.2% lower.

 

 

1.   RETAIL TURNOVER AND PRICE INDICES, BY MONTHS

Month

2005. = 100

Month 2009
Month 2008

2009 cumulative
2008 cumulative

2008.

2009.

Nominal

Prices

Real

Nominal

Prices

Real

Nominal

Prices

Real

Nominal

Prices

Real

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I.

97,5

110,3

88,4

86,1

112,8

76,3

88,3

102,3

86,3

-

-

-

II.

99,4

109,8

90,5

82,9

113,3

73,2

83,4

103,2

80,9

85,8

102,7

83,5

III.

111,2

110,8

100,3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IV.

117,6

111,8

105,2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

V.

125,3

113,5

110,4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VI.

123,4

114,4

107,9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VII.

138,7

113,3

122,4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VIII.

129,4

112,7

114,8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IX.

119,3

113,4

105,2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

X.

117,5

113,4

103,6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

XI.

102,9

112,8

91,3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

XII.

115,2

111,7

103,1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1)    See Notes on Methodology.

 

 

2.     TURNOVER INDICES, BY PREVAILING ACTIVITY OF BUSINESS ENTITIES, ACCORDING TO NKD 2007., FEBRUARY 2009

 

 

Total turnover

II. 2009.

I. 2009.

Retail turnover

II. 2009.

I. 2009.

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nominally

-

96,3

 

 

 

 

 

Really

-

95,8

 

 

 

 

47

Retail trade, except of trade of motor vehicles and motorcycles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nominally

96,0

94,3

 

 

 

 

 

Really

95,5

93,8

 

 

 

 

47.11

Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages and
tobacco predominating

97,3

96,0

 

 

 

 

47.19

Other retail sale in non-specialised stores

96,6

91,6

 

 

 

 

47.2

Retail trade of food, beverages and tobacco in specialised stores

96,6

97,2

 

 

 

 

47.3

Retail trade of automotive fuels in specialised stores

97,5

100,2

 

 

 

 

47.73 + 47.74 + 47.75

Dispensing chemist; retail sale of medical and orthopaedic goods,
cosmetic and toilet articles in specialised stores

94,6

94,7

 

 

 

 

47.51 + 47.71 + 47.72

Retail sale of textiles, clothing, footwear and leather goods in
specialised stores

74,9

73,2

 

 

 

 

47.43 + 47.52 + 47.54 + 47.59 + 47.63

Retail sale of audio and video equipment; hardware, paints
and glass; electrical household appliances; furniture, lighting
equipment, musical and video memorials, etc. in specialised
stores

104,5

100,8

 

 

 

 

47.41 + 47.42 + 47.53 + 47.61 + 47.62 + 47.64 + 47.65 + 47.76 + 47.77 + 47.78

Retail sale of computers, peripheral units and software;
telecommunications equipment, carpets, wall and floor coverings,
books, newspapers, stationery, sports equipment, games and toys,
flowers, seedlings, seeds, fertilisers, pets, watches and jewellery,
other retail sale in specialised stores

96,8

97,1

 

 

 

 

Other activities (excluding division 47)

-

101,4

 

 

 

Retail price index of goods according to consumer price index

100,5

100,5

3.     RETAIL TURNOVER INDICES, BY BRANCHES, FEBRUARY 2009 (nominal indices)

 

 

 

Structure
%

II. 2009.

II. 2009
I. 2009.

 

 

 

 

 

Total

100,0

96,3

01

Motor vehicles

4,7

114,1

03+04

Parts and accessories for motor vehicles, motorcycles and related parts and accessories

1,6

88,3

11

Non-specialised stores with food, beverages
and  tobacco predominating

35,9

96,8

19

Other non-specialised stores

6,6

91,5

21+ 22 + 23 + 29

Other food, beverages and tobacco in specialised stores

2,1

97,9

24

Bread, cakes, flour confectionary and sugar
confectionary

0,8

105,0

25

Alcoholic and other beverages

1,0

85,5

26

Tobacco products

1,1

100,2

30

Automotive fuels

15,8

100,3

41

Computers, peripheral units and software

0,8

82,9

42 + 43

Telecommunication equipment, audio and video equipment

0,5

112,6

51+71+72

Textile, clothing,  footwear and leather goods

5,7

73,5

52

Hardware, paints and glass

3,9

100,5

53

Carpets, rug, wall and floor coverings

0,3

90,7

54

Electrical household appliances

1,9

86,6

59

Retail sale of furniture, lighting equipment
and household articles n. e. c.

2,9

110,7

61

Books

0,3

101,8

62

Newspapers and stationery

3,3

96,3

63

Musical and video memorials

0,1

95,0

64

Sports equipment, haunting and fishing equipment

0,6

77,7

65 + 77 + 78

Other retail sale in specialised stores

1,2

103,4

73

Dispensing chemists, medical and orthopaedic goods

4,3

95,0

75

Cosmetic and toilet articles

2,3

94,4

76

Flowers, seedlings, seeds, fertilisers, pets

1,2

126,8

79 - 99

Second-hand goods and non store retail sale

1,4

121,3

 

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

 

Data source and methods of data collection

 

Data in this Release are based on the Monthly Report on Retail Trade (TRG-1 form). This survey has been carried out since

1 January 1998.

 

Methodology for this survey is based on the Eurostat recommendations. Reporting units are business entities classified by their prevailing activity into retail trade (section 47 of the NKD 2007.). Selected business entities engaged in other activities, executing the above-mentioned ones, are also included.

 

Since 1 January 2008, the sample framework consists of active legal entities and parts thereof, including newly-registered ones, which are, in the Register of Business Entities of the Central Bureau of Statistics, registered in the NKD 2007. section G and their activity status confirmed according to the data base of the Register of Tax Payers (the annual income tax registration for 2006) and according to data of the Register of Annual Financial Reports of the Fina (2007).

 

The Survey is carried out by using a sampling method. The evaluation of the whole group is based on the results obtained through samples.

 

The quality of results obtained by this survey depends strictly on the updating of registers, which represents the framework for the selection of the sample.

 

The standard error in the evaluation of the total turnover is 0.005. It means that at that level the reliability interval, that is, the interval index evaluation, amounts to 95% (the interval ranges from 0.9532 to 0.9728), whereas at lower aggregation levels this error is larger.

 

Coverage

 

The sample covers all large and medium-sized business entities, while micro-sized and small business entities are selected by random sample method.

 

The sample is divided into strata according to the prevailing activity and the size of the business entity. Business entities are divided by prevailing activity on the basis of the NKD 2007. (NN, No. 58/07). By size, they are divided into micro-sized, small, medium-sized and large ones.

 

The criterion for defining the size of a business entity is the number of persons in employment. Concerning business entities engaged primarily in non-trade activities, the number of persons in employment in trade activities is taken into account. Micro-sized business entities employ 0 – 9, small ones 10 – 49, medium-sized ones 50 – 249 and large ones 250 and more persons.

 

The following significant changes were introduced in 2009, as compared to previous years:

-     since January 2009 tradesmen have been covered by the survey,
-     the application of the new version of the National               Classification of Activities – the NKD 2007.

-     the preparation of a new sample framework on the basis of
      the Statistical Business Register of the Central Bureau of
      Statistics, leading to the change of the prevailing activity of many business units

-     the selection of a new sample of reporting units.

 

Due to these changes, at the level of individual activities indices may sometimes exhibit unusual modifications in relation to a same month of 2008. Therefore, we do not publish them in this release.

 

Definitions

 

Turnover is a total value of all goods sold and services provided on the market in a month, irrespective of whether paid up or not. It also includes the value added tax.

 

Data on the retail trade turnover are presented in two ways:

-     for the total turnover generated by all business entities with the retail trade as prevailing activity (classified in division 47
      of the NKD 2007.);

-     for the retail trade turnover expressed by all business entities
      engaged in this activity, irrespective of their registered
      prevailing activity.

 

Trade branches are the actual prevailing assortment of sale in the retail trade, where goods are also classified according to the NKD 2007.

 

Results are shown in the form of nominal (value indices) and real indices (volume indices). Volume indices are calculated by deflating value indices by retail trade price indices of goods (without electricity and water distribution) according to consumer price indices.

 

Abbreviations

 

etc.                  and so on (from Latin: et cetera)

Eurostat         Statistical Office of the European Communities

Fina                Financial Agency

n. e. c.            not elsewhere classified

NKD 2007.    National Classification of Activities, 2007 version

NN                  Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic of Croatia

 

Symbols

 

-  no occurrence