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Monthly State Retail Sales
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
Data
January 2022 Monthly State Retail Sales were released on April 28, 2022 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
- January 2022 Monthly State Retail Sales Report: PDF
- Not Adjusted State Retail Sales Year-over-Year Percentage Changes: CSV
- Standard Errors: CSV
- Coverage Measures: CSV
Special Notice: The January 2022 Monthly State Retail Sales Report does not reflect the revisions to the Monthly Retail Trade Sales estimates based on the results of the 2020 Annual Retail Trade Survey and the Service Annual Survey that were published on Monday, April 25, 2022. These revisions will be reflected in the February 2022 Monthly State Retail Sales Report that will be published on June 10, 2022.
Special Notice: The COVID-19 pandemic may lead to atypical year-to-year percentage changes in the MSRS data. The standard errors associated with these percentage changes may also be atypical. The MSRS standard errors are available here. As you analyze the data during these months, it is important to consider this information in the use of these data. More information on the limitations of the MSRS data is available here.
Interactive Visualization
Other Information
February 2022 Monthly State Retail Sales data will be released at 12:00 p.m. Friday, June 10, 2022. The 2022 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-FY22-031).