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Merchant Wholesalers -- Sales and Inventories: 1995 to 2006 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 1012)

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The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is also designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, the source note appearing below each table, and Appendix I, which comprises the Guide to Sources of Statistics, the Guide to State Statistical Abstracts, and the Guide to Foreign Statistical Abstracts.
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US Census Bureau source http://www.census.gov/statab/www

U.S. Census Bureau,
Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008 (127th Edition)
Washington, DC, 2007;
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/

Philip (flip) Kromer converted http://infochimp.org/flip
U.S. Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/mwts/www/mwtshist.html

U.S. Census Bureau,

"Annual Revision of Monthly Wholesale Distributors: Sales and Inventories:

January 1992 Through January 2007"

published 29 March 2007;

< http://www.census.gov/mwts/www/mwtshist.html >.

referenced on dataset section Data (#1)

U.S. Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/mwts/www/mwts.html

U.S. Census Bureau,

"Annual Revision of Monthly Wholesale Distributors: Sales and Inventories:

January 1992 Through January 2007"

published 29 March 2007;

< http://www.census.gov/mwts/www/mwtshist.html >.

For more information:

http://www.census.gov/mwts/www/mwts.html

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File structure

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the census department as excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and worst of all the table headers aren’t easily matched to their rows and columns.
The excel files in this collection are unmolested copies of the census originals, with the following exceptions:

  1. A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were
    corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty
    gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no
    data were changed.
The tables that were changed: 0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467 0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629 1144 1227 1231
  1. The first four files have been restructured to allow full
    comprehension of the table. If you’d like to help clean up the data
    follow along with what’s there.

The CSV files, and the payload portions of the yaml files, have not been processed beyond extracting an array (excel sheets) of 2-D arrays (each sheet’s cells).

Some metadata (title, footnotes, symbols, and sources) has been copied (without molesting the imported stream) into the appropriate slot in this schema. This metadata identification was purposefully done to be strict and simple, and the original files are somewhat irregular, so it’s possible that some metadata fields were missed

These files have been tagged by hand and received cursory inspection, but you’re advised to check against the originals before you go lauching any Mars rovers.

Footnotes

Notes (pg 2)

  1. North American Industry Classification System, 2002;
    see text, Section 15.

Headnotes

[In billions of dollars (1,767.1 represents $1,767,100,000,000), except ratios.
Inventories and inventories/sales ratios, as of December, seasonally adjusted.
Excludes manufacturers’ sales branches and offices. Data reflect latest revision.
Based on data from the Annual Wholesale Trade Survey
and the Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey; see Appendix III]

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table: [88, 14]

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SALES (billions of dollars) (billions) (billions) (billions) (billions) (billions) (billions) (billions) (billions) (billions) (billions) (billions) (billions)
Merchant wholesalers 42 2158.98 2284.343 2377.845 2427.12 2599.159 2814.554 2785.152 2835.528 2962.284 3296.52 3585.038 3952.032
Durable goods 423 1141.701 1190.342 1256.384 1306.545 1406.371 1486.673 1422.195 1421.503 1448.944 1654.621 1778.412 1942.774
Motor vehicles, parts, and supplies 4231 169.736 172.064 172.343 183.741 212.357 222.243 234.902 251.947 257.317 277.765 294.376 324.02
Furniture and home furnishings 4232 36.575 38.095 40.227 43.02 46.925 52.697 52.433 53.484 54.758 58.298 60.978 67.928
Lumber and other construction materials 4233 66.292 72.755 77.452 79.784 88.505 87.179 89.73 95.091 105.672 128.624 140.905 146.9
Professional, commercial equipment and supplies 4234 197.924 220.24 237.178 257.518 281.843 282.23 267.795 272.462 272.609 296.276 311.454 332.215
Computer, peripheral equipment and software 42343 (NA) (NA) 142.06 157.836 175.779 174.848 153.845 150.618 144.319 157.547 164.348 173.305
14=. … snip
published 29 March 2007;
<http://www.census.gov/mwts/www/mwtshist.html>.

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Notes (pg 2)

  • (NA) Not available.

Tablenum

1012

Year

2008

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