Monthly Retail Trade
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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
March 2022 Monthly State Retail Sales were released on June 30, 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
- March 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 February 2022 MSRS publication reflects an annual update to the MSRS estimates to incorporate revisions of the Monthly Retail Trade Sales estimates and other improvements to methodology. Please see Appendix Three of the MSRS Technical Documentation for an explanation of the updates.
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
April 2022 Monthly State Retail Sales data will be released at 12:00 p.m. Thursday, July 28, 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).