The data source is the Monthly Retail Trade Report: Retail and Food Services Sales: Excel (1992–
present), available on https://www.census.gov/
The data spans from 1992 to present (complete years) and includes both total sales in millions as well as details for
subcategories of retail sales. It contains both unadjusted and seasonally adjusted numbers.

In the *retail_salse_a_long * table Estimates are adjusted for seasonal variations and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes. Cumulative seasonally adjusted sales estimates are not tabulated.

Estimates are not adjusted for price changes. Retail and food services total and other subsector totals may include data for kinds of business not shown.


=== About this file ===

About this file
retail_sales_a_long (seasonally adjusted)
-In naics_code field : GAFO(1) represents stores classified in the following NAICS codes: 442, 443, 448, 451, 452, and 4532. NAICS code 4532 includes office supplies, stationery, and gift stores. -In value field : Suppressed values was replaced with NULL which is - Estimate does not meet publication standards because of high sampling variability (coefficient of variation is greater than 30%), poor response quality (total quantity response rate. NA (in the early years) was replaced with NULL also.


=== Columns & descriptions ===

month: Sales month represented as first day of each month
naics_code: NAICS: The North American Industry Classification System
kind_of_business: Business category
value: In millions of US dollars
