ADVANCE RETAIL SALES OF MOTOR VEHICLES
ADVANCE RETAIL SALES OF MOTOR VEHICLES
Advance Retail Sales of Motor Vehicles (monthly data, seasonally adjusted)
Motor vehicles are a major component of overall advance retail sales, accounting for twenty-five percent of the overall total for the month of March.
Advance Retail Sales of Motor Vehicles | Feb-02 | Mar-02 |
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Value of advance sales (in millions) | 67,004 | 66,794 |
Percent change from same month previous year | 0.72 | -0.31 |
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 Bureau's full retail sales sample.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census, as of Apr. 12, 2002, available at: http://www.census.gov/svsd/www/adseries.html