This information paper reports the re-basing of the retail sales and catering trade indices to reference year 2005. Details on the data sources, methodology adopted and the comparison of the re-based series and old series are presented. In addition, the detailed weights for activities in retail and catering trades as well as the re-based series from Janary 2005 to July 2006 are provided in the annexes.

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