CHRIS GILMOUR: Sanity is restored as February retail sales figures return to normal
Stats SA numbers are devoid of favourable base effects due to the absence of strict lockdowns
19 April 2022 - 16:26
As expected, Stats SA’s February retail sales figures exhibited a more “normal” pattern, devoid of favourable base effects due to the absence of strict lockdowns for the comparable period.
This has been a long time coming, as many of the previous months’ figures were so severely distorted by base effects that they were often impossible to interpret...
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