Retail Trade - Percentage change in sales 1996 Q3–2020 Q1
Stats NZ
Definitions
Sales: The value of sales of goods and services for the quarter. Sales are published as GST exclusive.
Stocks: Trading stocks, finished goods and work in progress, materials, fuels etc. on hand at the end of the quarter. Stocks are published as GST exclusive.
For more information
http://datainfoplus.stats.govt.nz/item/nz.govt.stats/3870801a-971c-49c8-a021-6e3962dce661/14
Inclusions
The target population is all kind-of-activity units (KAUs) operating in New Zealand classified on Stats NZ’s Business Register (BR) to Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification 2006 (ANZSIC06) Division G – Retail Trade, and ANZSIC06 Division H – Accommodation and Food Services.
Changes to data collection/processing
From September 2017 quarter, Stats NZ started collecting retail trade data under the new design. They are now using administrative data (goods and services tax (GST)) wherever possible, and supplementing this by surveying only the larger retail businesses.
For more details on these changes, please refer to http://archive.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/industry_sectors/RetailTrade/Methodology-changes-retail-trade.aspx
Data provided by
Dataset name
Retail Trade Survey: March 2020 quarter
Webpage:
https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/retail-trade-survey-march-2020-quarter
How to find the data
At URL provided, download 'Retail trade survey: March 2020 quarter – CSV' zipped file.
Import & extraction details
File as imported: Retail Trade Survey: March 2020 quarter
From the dataset Retail Trade Survey: March 2020 quarter, this data was extracted:
- Rows: 2,042-4,352
- Column: 3
- Provided: 772 data points
Dataset originally released on:
May 22, 2020
Purpose of collection
The Retail Trade Survey (RTS) provides short-term economic indicators of the retail trade sector. In addition, Stats NZ use the data for compiling the retail trade sector component of quarterly national accounts (on the production side) and in compiling household consumption expenditure (on the expenditure side).