The July 2006 trend estimate for South Australian retail turnover was $1,287.9m, compared with the Australian total of $18,111.3m.
Over the period January 2005 to January 2006 South Australian retail turnover for Household goods steadily declined from $187.3m to $165.3m (a fall of 11.7%). Subsequent to January 2006, retail turnover for Household goods steadily increased to be $180.5m in July 2006 (a rise of 9.2%), which was the largest growth of all the retail sectors over this time.
Only Other retailing, and Recreational goods retailing showed declines in turnover, of 2.6% and 0.5% respectively, between January 2006 and July 2006.
In August 2006, 3,245 new passenger vehicles and 5,052 vehicles in total (in trend terms) were sold in South Australia. Corresponding sales for Australia were 49,906 and 79,449.