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Retail Sales Data in the Woods & Poole Database

June 3, 2019

Data for retail sales by kind of business are from the 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012 Census of Retail Trade (US Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census)  Retail sales data for 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992, and 1997 have been adjusted by Woods & Poole from SIC classifications to estimated NAICS kind of business classifications to be consistent with 2002 Census of Retail Trade data  The intervening historical data for the years 1969-71, 1973-76, 1978-81, 1983-86, 1988-91, 1993-96, 1998-2001, 2003-06, and 2008-11 are also estimated by Woods & Poole  US retail sales data for 1969-2012 are from the Bureau of Economic Analysis but are revised by Woods & Poole to be consistent with the sum of the county retail sales data for the Census years  Therefore, retail sales data for the US are the sum of county retail sales as published in the Census of Retail Trade and differ […]

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