Over the same period, the volume of retail trade sales, from which the impact of prices has been eliminated, went down by 1.9 per cent.
In daily consumer goods trade, sales also contracted by 3.1 per cent and the sales volume by 1.7 per cent in August from the corresponding period of the previous year.
Annual changes in trade sales and sales volumes are given unadjusted for seasonal variation. There were 26 weekday trading days in July 2015, which is the same as in August 2014.
According to the Structural business and financial statement statistics, daily consumer goods accounted for 48.3 per cent of turnover in retail trade in 2013.
