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Retail Trade and Food Services--Sales, by Kind of Business:1995 to 2006 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 1015)

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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.
This volume includes a selection of data from many statistical sources, both government and private. Publications cited as sources usually contain additional statistical detail and more comprehensive discussions of definitions and concepts. Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes. More information on the subjects covered in the tables so noted may generally be obtained from the source.

Although emphasis in the Statistical Abstract is primarily given to national data, many tables present data for regions and individual states and a smaller number for metropolitan areas and cities. Appendix II, Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: Concepts, Components, and Population, presents explanatory text, a complete current listing and population data for metropolitan and micropolitan areas defined as of December 2005. Statistics for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and for island areas of the United States are included in many state tables and are supplemented by information in Section 29. Additional information for states, cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and other small units, as well as more historical data are available in various supplements to the Abstract.

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Credits

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, Current Business Reports,

U.S. Census Bureau, Current Business Reports,

Annual Revision of Monthly Retail and Food Services: Sales and Inventories—January 1992 Through

February 200, Series BR/06-A.

referenced on dataset section Data (#1)

U.S. Census Bureau, Current Business Reports, http://www.census.gov/mrts/www/mrts.html

U.S. Census Bureau, Current Business Reports,

Annual Revision of Monthly Retail and Food Services: Sales and Inventories—January 1992 Through

February 2007< med >, Series BR/06-A.

For more information:

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

referenced on dataset section Notes (#2)

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All US Census Bureau materials, regardless of the media, are entirely in the public domain. There are no user fees, site licenses, or any special agreements etc for the public or private use, and or reuse of any census title. As tax funded product, it’s all in the public record.
Some of our products, however, are special cases. […] The Statistical Abstract has some data covered by copyright law. Check the table’s footnotes to determine if the data are covered by copyright law.

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.
  2. GAFO (General Merchandise, Apparel, Furniture, and Office Supplies) represents store classified in the following NAICS codes:
    442,443,448,451,452, and 4532.
  3. Includes other kinds of business not shown separately.
  4. L.D. represents leased departments.

Headnotes

[In millions of dollars (2,054,628 represents $2,054,628,000,000).
Sales and inventories for leased departments and concessions are
tabulated in the kind-of-business category of the leased department
or concession.]

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table: [81, 14]

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Kind of Business 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
(millions) (millions) (millions) (millions) (millions) (millions) (millions) (millions) (millions) (millions) (millions) (millions)
Retail sales and food services, total 44, 45, 722 2456.129 2609.561 2732.043 2859.332 3093.569 3294.217 3385.577 3466.136 3615.17 3846.316 4088.031 4330.457
Total (excluding motor vehicle and parts dealers) 1875.287 1980.874 2077.03 2169.653 2328.02 2496.649 2568.636 2645.867 2773.955 2981.775 3199.724 3429.345
Retail sales, total 44, 45 2222.504 2366.665 2474.003 2587.105 2808.556 2988.756 3067.725 3134.322 3265.477 3474.34 3693.43 3904.305
Retail sales, total (excluding motor vehicle and parts dealers) 44, 45 1641.662 1737.978 1818.99 1897.426 2043.007 2191.188 2250.784 2314.053 2424.262 2609.799 2805.123 3003.193
GAFO, total 2 651.071 683.678 714.453 759.063 816.827 863.903 883.866 913.925 948.246 1007.195 1065.523 1129.437
Motor vehicle and parts dealers 441 580.842 628.687 655.013 689.679 765.549 797.568 816.941 820.269 841.215 864.541 888.307 901.112
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Annual Revision of Monthly Retail and Food Services: Sales and Inventories—January 1992 Through
February 200, Series BR/06-A.

Tablenum

1015

Year

2008

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