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Census of Retail Trade
Description & Updates |
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/usgd/ecocensus/retail.html
Definition: The Retail Trade sector (sector 44-45) comprises
establishments engaged in retailing merchandise, generally without
transformation, and rendering services incidental to the sale of merchandise.
Comparability with SIC data: This sector includes much of what
was classified in Retail Trade under the SIC system. Excluded from this sector,
however, are eating and drinking places and mobile foodservices (which are now
in the Accommodation and Foodservices sector); pawn shops (which are now in the
Finance and Insurance sector); and bakeries (which are now in the Manufacturing
sector).
In addition, this sector now includes industries previously classified in
Wholesale Trade that sold merchandise using facilities open to the general
public. Prominent examples of these are automotive supplies dealers, computer
and peripheral equipment merchants, office supplies dealers, farm supplies
dealers, and building materials dealers.
Geographic detail: The Economic Census publishes data for the
retail trade sector for the U.S., states, counties, places, and metropolitan
areas, and, on CD-ROM only, for ZIP codes.
The Census of Retail trade is updated by:
- Advance
Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services
- Annual Retail
Trade Survey
- Monthly Retail
Trade and Food Services
- Monthly
Retail Trade: Sales and Inventories
- County
Business Patterns
- County Business Patterns is an annual series that provides subnational
economic data by industry. The series is useful for studying the economic
activity of small areas; analyzing economic changes over time; and as a
benchmark for statistical series, surveys, and databases between economic
censuses. This series has been published annually since 1964 and at irregular
intervals dating back to 1946. The comparability of data over time may be
affected by definitional changes in establishments, activity status, and
industrial classifications.
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