Retail trade

The retail trade index measures the monthly evolution of the turnover at current prices of enterprises
with retail sale outlets. Since January 2009 the indices are calculated with reference to the base year
2005 using the new Ateco 2007 classification (Italian edition of Nace Rev. 2).
In August 2011 the seasonally adjusted retail trade index was unchanged with respect to the previous
month (+0.3% for food goods and -0.1% for non food goods). The average of the last three months
compared to the previous three months decreased by 0.4%.
The unadjusted index fell by 0.3% with respect to August 2010.