Electronic Card Transactions: September 2011

Embargoed until 10:45am  –  11 October 2011

Key facts

Changes in the seasonally adjusted value of transactions (compared with August 2011) were as follows:

  • Total electronic card transactions rose slightly, up 0.2 percent.
  • Transactions in the retail industries rose 0.4 percent.
  • Transactions in the core retail industries were up 0.6 percent.
  • The largest increase was in fuel transactions, which rose 2.9 percent.

The actual (unadjusted) value of total transactions was up 6.5 percent from September 2010.

 Geoff Bascand  11 October 2011
 Government Statistician  ISSN 1178-0258