Retail sales rise in Castilla y Le?n 0.2 percent (-1.8% in Spain) and employment increased by 0.8%.
Sales of retail trade recorded a rise of 0.2 percent in Castilla y Leon while in Spain declined 1.8 percent in constant terms in May over the same month of 2009, said today the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
Besides Castilla y Leon in sales of retail trade increased only in Cantabria (1.6 percent) and Madrid (0.7 percent).
Regarding occupation, in the Community the, aika gold, number of jobs stood at 0.8 percent, 0.6 percent higher from January to May, and only this region with Asturias, which was an increase of 0, 6 percent compared with May 2009, were increased this figure.
National average
Sales of retail trade recorded a decrease of 1.8 percent in real terms last May over the same month, mortal gold, of 2009, which strung his second month in negative in March after it achieved its first growth in two years, with an increase of 3.5%, according to Monday's National Statistics Institute (INE).
Removed the calendar effect, ie the difference in the number of working days a month featuring different years, the retail index at constant prices in May recording a rate of -1.9, tibia gold, percent.
All modes of commercial distribution showed negative annual rates in May, except the big chains that were the only ones who increased their sales in the fifth month of the year by 0.4 percent.
Employment in the retail trade sector fell again in May, registering a negative rate of 1.5% over the same month in 2009, stringing together 22 consecutive months so of decline.