Weekly Bulletin issue no. 50, 1996
Retail trade index, October 1996:
High turnover in retail trade
Norway's volume of retail trade exclusive of motor vehicles and gasoline
rose by eight per cent from October 1995 to October 1996. Only the volume of
December sales exceeds that of October this year. The volume of retail trade in
October this year is four per cent higher than October 1986, which had been the
highest outside December trade until now. The price index went up by 1.1 per
cent during the same period.
New Statistics
Index of retail sales, October 1996.
Statistics are published every
month in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics. More information: Solveig
Nygårdseter, tel. +47 62 88 51 74, e-mail: snl@ssb.no or Rune Sønsterudbråten,
tel. +47 62 88 54 37, e-mail: rso@ssb.no.
Weekly Bulletin issue no. 50, 1996