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Direct comparison statements that are not statistically significant are not allowed, except for statements of changes in news releases for the economic indicator variables listed in the table below. In these news releases, the footnote below must be provided to indicate that the comparison is not statistically significant:
"The 90 percent confidence interval for the change includes zero. There is insufficient evidence to conclude that the actual change is different from zero."
Program | Frequency | Levels | Characteristics | Current Period to Prior Period | Current Period to Same Period One Year Ago | Year-to-date to prior year-to-date |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Advance Monthly Retail and Food Services Survey (MARTS) | Monthly |
|
Sales | ✓ | Monthly: ✓ Quarterly: ✓ |
✓ (Dec. only) |
Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey (MWTS) | Monthly |
|
Sales | ✓ | ✓ | |
Inventories | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Quarterly Services Survey (QSS) | Quarterly |
|
Receipts or revenue | ✓ | ✓ | |
Expenses |
✓ | ✓ | ||||
Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales (MTIS) | Monthly |
|
Distributive trades sales plus manufacturers’ shipments and total business inventories |
✓ | ✓ | |
Building Permits Survey (BPS) | Monthly |
|
Authorizations |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Survey of Construction (SOC) | Monthly |
|
Starts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Completions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
|
Sales | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Value Put-in-Place (VIP) Surveys | Monthly |
|
Construction expenditures | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Quarterly Financial Report (QFR) | Quarterly |
|
Seasonally-adjusted:
|
✓ | ||
|
Not seasonally-adjusted:
|
✓ | ||||
E-Commerce | Quarterly |
|
Total sales |
✓ | ✓ | |
E-commerce sales | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Housing Vacancies and Homeownership (CPS/HVS) | Quarterly |
|
Rental vacancy rate, Homeowner vacancy rate, Homeownership rate | ✓ | ✓ |
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