WELLINGTON, Nov 16 (Reuters) - New Zealand retail sales volumes rose a seasonally adjusted 1.6 percent in the third quarter, data from Statistics New Zealand showed on Monday, putting sales 5.7 percent higher on the year.
Economists had forecast a 1.25 percent rise in quarterly sales volumes, and a 5.6 percent rise in annual sales.
---------------------------------------------------------------- (Revised from in brackets) S/adj sales vols at constant prices from prev qtr:
3rd qtr
Pvs qtr
+1.6
+0.1 (0.1)
--------------------------------------------------------------- Actual sales vols at constant prices, from yr ago qtr:
3rd qtr
Pvs qtr
+5.7
+5.5 (5.9)
--------------------------------------------------------------- The full data is available at http://www.stats.govt.nz