The Monthly State Retail Sales (MSRS) is the Census Bureau's new experimental data product featuring modeled state-level retail sales. This is a blended data product using Monthly Retail Trade Survey data, administrative data, and third-party data. Year-over-year percentage changes are available for Total Retail Sales excluding Nonstore Retailers as well as 11 retail North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) retail subsectors. These data are provided by state and NAICS codes beginning with January 2019. The Census Bureau plans to continue to improve the methodology to be able to publish more data in the future.
Please email us with any questions or feedback at EID.Monthly.State.Retail@census.gov
January 2023 Monthly State Retail Sales were released on April 27, 2023 and are available in the csv files and data visualization below. For explanatory materials for these experimental statistics, please visit the Monthly State Retail Sales Overview and the technical documentation. For more information on the content of the data files, please reference the Monthly State Retail Sales Data Dictionary
Special Notice: The January 2023 Monthly State Retail Sales Report does not reflect the revisions to the Monthly Retail Trade Sales estimates based on the results of the 2021 Annual Retail Trade Survey and the Service Annual Survey that were published on Monday, April 24, 2023. These revisions will be reflected in the February 2023 Monthly State Retail Sales Report that will be published on June 12, 2023.
February 2023 Monthly State Retail Sales data will be released at 12:00 p.m. on Monday, June 12, 2023. The 2023 MSRS release date schedule is available here.
For questions or feedback, please email EID.Monthly.State.Retail@census.gov
The Census Bureau has reviewed this monthly data product for unauthorized disclosure of confidential information and has approved the disclosure avoidance practices applied. (Approval ID: CBDRB-FY23-004).
