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Large Store Sales Index (IVGS). Current prices

Large Store Sales Index (IVGS). Current prices Catalonia. 2021
Index (annual average) Variation (%)
General index 100.0 1.0
Food 100.0 -1.8
Rest of products 100.0 4.1
Units: Index (Base 2021 = 100).
Source: Idescat.
Notes:
Between 14 March and 21 June 2020, it is in force the Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14 March, which declares the state of alarm for the management of the health crisis situation caused by Covid-19.
The Catalan and Spanish indexes are designed using different methodologies, as the INE includes both specialist and non-specialist large stores. This means it is not always possible to make direct comparisons between the results.
Large Store Sales Index (IVGS). Current prices Spain. 2021
Index (annual average) Variation (%)
General index 100.0 10.1
Food 100.0 -1.7
Rest of products 100.0 16.9
Units: Index (Base 2021 = 100).
Source: INE.
Notes:
Between 14 March and 21 June 2020, it is in force the Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14 March, which declares the state of alarm for the management of the health crisis situation caused by Covid-19.
The Catalan and Spanish indexes are designed using different methodologies, as the INE includes both specialist and non-specialist large stores. This means it is not always possible to make direct comparisons between the results.

Last update: February 6, 2023.

Methodological note

The Large Store Sales Index is an indicator which makes it possible to monitor a very dynamic commercial sub-sector, namely non-specialist large stores. The results are based on exhaustive information about all the non-specialist large stores operating in Catalonia.

Large stores means commercial establishments with a sales area of more than 2,500 square metres. At present some sixty establishments are included. Turnover is broken down into food and other products.

The INE calculates a large store sales index for Spain as a whole, but using a different methodology, as the INE includes both specialist and non-specialist large stores. This means it is not always possible to make direct comparisons between the results.

The base year of the index is 2015. It has been calculated retrospectively with the new base the whole available series since January 1995.