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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 7, 1962
G.7.4.2
GOVERNOR
LIBRARY
MONTHLY DEPARTMENT STORE STOCKS
(Based on retail dollar amounts)
JULY 1962
'-ffPAl ^g$|$tiS^^asonally adjusted department store stocks index for
July rs'-e-stimated at 118 per cent of the 1957-59 average. The
index is unchanged from June but is 8 per cent above the index for
July a year ago.
Federal Reserve
District
Index numbers
(Average end-of-month stocks 1957-59=100)
Seasonally adjusted
Unadjusted
1962
1961
1962
1961
July June
July June
July
July
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland
118
113
113
116
115
113
112
117
111
rl09
105
no
108
102
103
112
109
106
106
111
102
r 98
r 95
106
Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis
118 118
120 115
122 121
117 rll7
108
rl06
111
rl08
111
110
119
112
112
107
117
rill
101
r 98
109
rl04
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco
United States
109
pH5
P115
pl27
113
114
115
123
109
113
rlOl
rll5
106
T>110
pill
pl23
104
109
108
123
106
107
r 97
111
pll8
118
110
pll2
112
104
Percentage
change July
1962 from*
Year
Month
. ago
ago
+ 2
4- 6
+ 3
+ 8
+ 5
0
+ 9
+13
+10
+ 9
0
+ 1
- 1
+ 4
+ 1
+ 1
0
1
0
+ 2
+15
+10
0
+ 8
4
+ 1
-
*—Based on seasonally adjusted indexes.
p—Preliminary.
r—Revised Note:—Indexes are based on value of stocks at end of month. For description of
the series see Federal Reserve Bulletin for July 1962, pp. 803-808. Back data
may be obtained from the Division of Administrative Services. Indexes for the
most recent thirteen-month period are shown regularly in the Bulletin.
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