IMPROVING LIVES THROUGH DATA ECOSYSTEMS

Sales at constant 2012 prices: results for March 2014

Measured in real terms (constant 2012 prices), wholesale trade sales increased by 6,0% year-on-year in March 2014. Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales decreased by 5,2% in March 2014 compared with February 2014. This followed month-on-month changes of -0,4% in February 2014 and 3,4% in January 2014.

Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales increased by 1,0% in the first quarter of 2014 compared with the previous quarter.

Sales at current prices: results for March 2014

Measured in nominal terms (current prices), wholesale trade sales increased by 14,7% in March 2014 compared with March 2013. The major contributors to this increase were dealers in:

• machinery, equipment and supplies (34,7% and contributing 4,4 percentage points);
• solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products (12,8% and contributing 3,2 percentage points); and
• 'other' household goods except precious stones (12,0% and contributing 1,2 percentage points).

Wholesale trade sales increased by 15,4% in the first quarter of 2014 compared with the first quarter of 2013. The major contributors to this increase were dealers in:

• solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products (15,1% and contributing 3,7 percentage points);
• machinery, equipment and supplies (24,8% and contributing 3,4 percentage points); and
• 'other' intermediate products, waste and scrap (33,2% and contributing 1,2 percentage points).