| Jan-2021 ($m) | Dec-2020 to Jan-2021 (% change) | Jan-2020 to Jan-2021 (% change) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trend | na | na | na |
| Seasonally Adjusted | 30,512.3 | 0.5 | 10.6 |
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Retail Trade, Australia
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Monthly and quarterly estimates of turnover and volumes for retail businesses, including store and online sales.
Reference period
January 2021
Released
4/03/2021
Key statistics
The January 2021 seasonally adjusted estimate:
- Rose 0.5% month-on-month.
- This updates the rise of 0.6% published in the Preliminary Retail Trade release.
- Australian turnover rose 10.6% compared to January 2020.
Total retail turnover
Changes in this issue
To understand more about any changes in this issue, suspension of trend estimates, and COVID-19 in January, please read the survey impacts and changes.
Analysis by industry
Food retailing
Food retailing rose 1.6% ($196.1m) in January, in seasonally adjusted terms.
By industry subgroup, the seasonally adjusted estimate:
- rose 1.3% ($138.4m) for Supermarket and grocery stores.
- rose 2.3% ($30.2m) for Liquor retailing.
- rose 3.1% ($27.5m) for Other specialised food retailing.
Household goods retailing
Household goods retailing rose 0.1% ($4.9m) in January, in seasonally adjusted terms.
By industry subgroup, the seasonally adjusted estimate:
- rose 1.0% ($19.5m) for Hardware, building and garden supplies retailing.
- rose 0.4% ($5.9m) for Furniture, floor coverings, houseware and textile goods retailing.
- fell 1.0% (-$20.5m) for Electrical and electronic goods retailing.
Clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing
Clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing fell 3.6% (-$86.3m) in January, in seasonally adjusted terms.
By industry subgroup, the seasonally adjusted estimate:
- fell 6.1% (-$101.1m) for Clothing retailing.
- rose 2.0% ($14.8m) for Footwear and other personal accessory retailing.
Department stores
Department stores fell 0.4% (-$6.4m) in January, in seasonally adjusted terms.
Other retailing
Other retailing rose 1.4% ($64.4m) in January, in seasonally adjusted terms.
By industry subgroup, the seasonally adjusted estimate:
- rose 2.8% ($56.0m) for Other retailing n.e.c..
- rose 7.2% ($37.5m) for Other recreational goods retailing.
- fell 1.2% (-$20.6m) for Pharmaceutical, cosmetic and toiletry goods retailing.
- fell 4.1% (-$8.5m) for Newspaper and book retailing.
Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services
Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services fell 0.8% (-$29.2m) in January, in seasonally adjusted terms.
By industry subgroup, the seasonally adjusted estimate:
- fell 1.2% (-$20.1m) for Takeaway food services.
- fell 0.4% (-$9.1m) for Cafes, restaurants and catering services.
Original estimates for chains and larger retailers, and smaller retailers
- The original estimate for chains and other larger retailers fell 23.4% in January 2021.
- The original estimate for smaller retailers fell 19.8% in January 2021.
Data downloads
Time series spreadsheets
Data files
Table 1. Retail turnover, by industry group
Table 2. Retail turnover, by industry group - percentage change from previous month
Table 3. Retail turnover, by state
Table 4. Retail turnover, by state - percentage change from previous month
Table 5. Quarterly retail turnover percentage change, volume and price, seasonally adjusted - by industry group
Table 6. Quarterly retail turnover percentage change, volume and price, seasonally adjusted - by state
Table 7. Quarterly retail turnover, chain volume measures - by industry group
Table 8. Quarterly retail turnover percentage change, chain volume measures - by industry group
Table 9. Quarterly retail turnover, chain volume measures - by state
Table 10. Quarterly retail turnover percentage change, chain volume measures - by state
Table 11. Retail turnover, state by industry subgroup, original
Table 12. Retail turnover, state by industry subgroup, seasonally adjusted
Table 13. Retail turnover, state by industry subgroup, trend
Table 14. Retail turnover; completely enumerated (large) and sample (small), by industry group
Table 15. Retail turnover; completely enumerated (large) and sample (small), by state
Table 16. Retail turnover, completely enumerated sector: Australia
Table 17. Quarterly consumer sales, Australia, by type of activity
Table 18. Quarterly consumer sales, Australia, by type of activity - percentage change from previous quarter
Table 19. Quarterly retail turnover per capita, Australia, all series
Table 20. Quarterly retail turnover per capita, Australia, all series - percentage change from previous quarter
Table 21. Experimental series - online retail turnover Australia by type of activity
Table 22. Experimental series - online retail turnover Australia by type of activity percentage change
Table 23. Experimental series - online retail turnover Australia by type of activity percentage of total Australian retail turnover
Survey impacts and changes
Changes in this issue
There are no revisions to the original estimates.
This issue includes updated online retail turnover estimates for the January 2021 reference month. This issue also includes Survey of Consumer Sales estimates for the December quarter. Data can be found in the Data Downloads section, and the data is explained in the methodology section of this publication.
Suspension of trend series
The trend series attempts to measure underlying behaviour in retail activity. In the short term, this measurement will be significantly affected by changes to regular patterns in retail spending that will occur during the Coronavirus pandemic. If the trend estimates in this publication were to be calculated without fully accounting for irregular events, they would likely provide a misleading view of underlying retail activity.
The retail trend series was therefore suspended from February 2020, and now published only to June 2019. The trend series will be reinstated when more certainty emerges in the underlying trend in retail.
An annual seasonal review will take place following this release. This will assess seasonal factors over the past year, and may lead to revisions to the seasonally adjusted series from the February 2021 publication.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) in January
The World Health Organisation identified COVID-19 as an international health emergency on 30 January 2020.
In March 2020, nationwide regulations were introduced to encourage physical distancing which impacted the ability of businesses to trade as normal. Movement across state borders were also restricted.
In July 2020, Victoria saw increased regulations, especially in Melbourne, that remained in place for much of August through to the end of October last year.
Recent changes to restrictions include those introduced to Greater Sydney from 20 December 2020, including restrictions on the number of guests per household, which were progressively eased into January this year. Queensland saw restrictions introduced in Brisbane from 8 January and Western Australia saw restrictions from 31 January.
Previous catalogue number
This release previously used catalogue number 8501.0.
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