Retail trade turnover index registered a year-on-year change rate of 2.6% in July, -4.8 percentage points below the rate observed in June. These results continue to be influenced by a base effect, given that the comparison focuses on months heavily affected by the pandemic, with year-on-year decreases of 4.5% and 1.5% in June and July 2020, respectively. It should be noticed that in July 2021 the index is 1.1% above July 2019.
The indices of employment, wages and salaries and hours worked adjusted of calendar effects presented year-on-year change rates of 1.0%, 4.0% and 3.3%, respectively (1.3%, 8.0% and 10.7% in the previous month, by the same order).