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Retail Sales Data in the 2021 Woods & Poole Database

July 7, 2021

Data for retail sales by kind of business are from the 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017 Census of Retail Trade (U.S. 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, 2008-11, and 2013-16 are also estimated by Woods & Poole.  U.S. retail sales data for 1969-2017 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 U.S. are the sum of county retail sales as published in the Census of Retail […]

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