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Retail Trade--Merchandise Inventories, Inventory/Sales Ratios, by Kind of Business: 1995 to 2006 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 1018)

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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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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 2007< med >, 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.

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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
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    follow along with what’s there.

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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. Includes kind of business not shown separately.

Headnotes

[Inventories in millions of dollars (329,500 represents $329,500,000,000). As of Dec. 31. Includes warehouses.
Estimates exclude food services. Adjusted for seasonal variations. Sales data also adjusted for holiday
and trading-day differences.
Sales and inventories for leased departments and concessions are
tabulated in the kind-of-business category of the leased department
or concession.
Based on data from the Monthly Retail Trade Survey, Annual Retail Trade Survey, and administrative records. Estimates have
administrative records; see Appendix III. Data have been adjusted using results of the 2002 Economic Census]

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Kind of business 2002 NAICS code 1
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
(millions)
Total 2 44-45 322.925 333.999 344.594 357.246 385.082 407.033 395.018 416.817 433.133 462.607 475.52 490.909 1.69 1.66 1.64 1.6 1.57 1.62 1.54 1.57 1.56 1.55 1.52 1.49
Total excluding motor vehicle and parts dealers 44-45 ex 441 229.379 236.579 243.105 254.443 269.188 278.543 275.571 281.056 286.708 307.291 321.219 335.758 1.63 1.59 1.58 1.56 1.5 1.49 1.46 1.43 1.38 1.37 1.34 1.33
Motor vehicle and parts dealers 441 93.546 97.42 101.489 102.803 115.894 128.49 119.447 135.761 146.425 155.316 154.301 155.151 1.85 1.84 1.82 1.7 1.76 2.01 1.74 1.95 2.09 2.07 2.1 2.01
Furniture, home furnishings, electronics, and appliance stores 442,443 21.839 22.278 22.135 22.682 24.163 25.721 24.625 26.025 27.47 30.574 31.474 32.06 1.96 1.95 1.79 1.74 1.71 1.86 1.65 1.74 1.71 1.79 1.73 1.64
Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers 444 26.384 27.497 28.947 30.966 33.153 34.525 34.6 36.571 38.119 42.573 46.397 46.794 1.81 1.84 1.78 1.75 1.74 1.76 1.75 1.78 1.66 1.64 1.63 1.6
Food and beverage stores 445 28.776 29.718 29.949 30.901 32.642 32.052 33.041 32.726 32.358 33.33 33.895 34.647 0.87 0.88 0.87 0.87 0.86 0.84 0.84 0.84 0.81 0.79 0.77 0.75
Clothing and clothing accessories stores 448 29.382 29.864 31.167 32.383 33.854 36.928 35.853 37.683 38.846 41.934 44.188 49.728 2.63 2.61 2.57 2.54 2.5 2.62 2.53 2.55 2.52 2.6 2.57 2.72
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Annual Revision of Monthly Retail and Food Services: Sales and Inventories—January 1992 Through
February 2007, Series BR/06-A.

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2008

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