No change in retail sales
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The seasonally-adjusted volume of retail sales showed no change from February to March 2021. This follows a decrease of 0.3 per cent from January to February.
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- Index of wholesale and retail sales (archive)
New figures from the Index of wholesale and retail trade showed no change in the seasonal adjusted volume of the retail sector in March. The pandemic and regulations imposed to limit infections have contributed to Norwegians changing their consumption pattern in the direction of spending less on services, and more on retail goods. These changes in the shopping pattern of the Norwegian people have made the seasonally adjusted figures more volatile.
1 March 2020 and the subsequent months are specified as outliers in the seasonal adjustment routine. Hence, the trend figures for the latest months are not included in the figure.
Figure 1. Retail sales volume index, seasonally adjusted and trend. 2015=100
Seasonally adjusted | Trend | |
March 2015 | 100.9 | 100.7 |
April 2015 | 103.5 | 100.7 |
May 2015 | 98.7 | 100.5 |
June 2015 | 100.1 | 100.4 |
July 2015 | 100.4 | 100.3 |
Aug. 2015 | 100.9 | 100.3 |
Sep. 2015 | 100.1 | 100.3 |
Oct. 2015 | 100.8 | 100.4 |
Nov. 2015 | 100.3 | 100.4 |
Dec. 2015 | 100.2 | 100.3 |
Jan. 2016 | 100.8 | 100.1 |
Feb. 2016 | 99.7 | 99.8 |
March 2016 | 99.0 | 99.6 |
April 2016 | 98.9 | 99.5 |
May 2016 | 99.9 | 99.4 |
June 2016 | 99.9 | 99.4 |
July 2016 | 99.1 | 99.5 |
Aug. 2016 | 99.6 | 99.7 |
Sep. 2016 | 99.8 | 99.9 |
Oct. 2016 | 100.9 | 100.1 |
Nov. 2016 | 100.2 | 100.3 |
Dec. 2016 | 98.3 | 100.5 |
Jan. 2017 | 100.2 | 100.8 |
Feb. 2017 | 101.3 | 101.0 |
March 2017 | 101.4 | 101.3 |
April 2017 | 101.0 | 101.5 |
May 2017 | 102.6 | 101.6 |
June 2017 | 102.5 | 101.7 |
July 2017 | 102.3 | 101.7 |
Aug. 2017 | 101.9 | 101.7 |
Sep. 2017 | 101.2 | 101.8 |
Oct. 2017 | 101.6 | 101.9 |
Nov. 2017 | 102.9 | 102.1 |
Dec. 2017 | 102.7 | 102.3 |
Jan. 2018 | 102.0 | 102.5 |
Feb. 2018 | 102.5 | 102.6 |
March 2018 | 102.4 | 102.7 |
April 2018 | 102.9 | 102.7 |
May 2018 | 105.2 | 102.7 |
June 2018 | 102.1 | 102.7 |
July 2018 | 102.4 | 102.6 |
Aug. 2018 | 102.9 | 102.6 |
Sep. 2018 | 102.3 | 102.5 |
Oct. 2018 | 102.3 | 102.5 |
Nov. 2018 | 102.8 | 102.5 |
Dec. 2018 | 101.9 | 102.5 |
Jan. 2019 | 103.3 | 102.5 |
Feb. 2019 | 101.5 | 102.5 |
March 2019 | 102.5 | 102.6 |
April 2019 | 104.1 | 102.7 |
May 2019 | 102.8 | 102.9 |
June 2019 | 102.4 | 103.0 |
July 2019 | 103.2 | 103.1 |
Aug. 2019 | 103.2 | 103.1 |
Sep. 2019 | 103.2 | 103.0 |
Oct. 2019 | 102.4 | 102.8 |
Nov. 2019 | 103.4 | 102.8 |
Dec. 2019 | 101.4 | 102.8 |
Jan. 2020 | 101.7 | 102.9 |
Feb. 2020 | 103.5 | 103.1 |
March 2020 | 102.5 | |
April 2020 | 107.3 | |
May 2020 | 110.4 | |
June 2020 | 116.6 | |
July 2020 | 117.4 | |
Aug. 2020 | 111.7 | |
Sep. 2020 | 112.1 | |
Oct. 2020 | 113.5 | |
Nov. 2020 | 116.8 | |
Dec. 2020 | 110.1 | |
Jan. 2021 | 110.0 | |
Feb. 2021 | 109.7 | |
March 2021 | 109.7 |
Decline for the clothing stores
The seasonally adjusted volume of the retail sector showed no change from February to March, but there were differences between the different sectors. Clothing stores had a decline in the seasonally adjusted volume and was the largest contribution to decline in the volume of retail sales. On the other hand grocery stores experienced an increase in the seasonally adjusted volume of 2.9 per cent, contributing to an increase in the volume of retail sales and contributing to making the volume of retail sales unchanged.
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Anders Falla Aas
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Marius Bergh
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