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-four percent of the overall total for the month of September.
Advance Retail Sales of Motor Vehicles | Aug-02 | Sep-02 |
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Value of advance sales (millions of dollars) | 70,896 | 67,204 |
Percent change from previous month | 1.62 | -5.21 |
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 the Census, as of Oct. 11, 2002, available at: http://www.census.gov/svsd/www/adseries.html