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ADVANCE RETAIL SALES OF MOTOR VEHICLES

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

ADVANCE RETAIL SALES OF MOTOR VEHICLES

Advance Retail Sales of Motor Vehicles (monthly data, seasonally adjusted)

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Advance Retail Sales of Motor Vehicles (monthly data, seasonally adjusted). If you are a user with a disability and cannot view this image, please call 800-853-1351 or email answers@bts.gov for further assistance.

Motor vehicles are a major component of overall advance retail sales, accounting for twenty-five percent of the overall total for the month of February.

Advance Retail Sales of Motor Vehicles Jan-02 Feb-02
Value of advance sales of automobiles and other motor vehicles (in millions) 66,371 66,708
Percent change from same month previous year  -5.13   0.51

NOTE: Advance retail sales are advance estimates of monthly retail trade produced by the Bureau of the Census. The advance estimates are based on a small subsample of the Census Bureaus full retail sales sample.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census, as of Mar. 13, 2002, available at: http://www.census.gov/svsd/www/adseries.html