Census of Retail Trade, 1987. Subject Series: Merchandise Line Sales, United States

摘要

The report represents a recompilation of establishment and sales data collected in the 1987 Census of Retail Trade according to various categories of merchandise lines sold by retail establishments. Tables in the Merchandise Line Sales series present only data for establishments with payroll. An individual establishment (i.e., business location) is the unit to which a single kind-of-business classification is assigned and for which data are summarized in most retail census tabulations. To meet some important data needs of manufactures, sales by merchandise line that were collected in the census are presented in the report by broad merchandise line groupings. While information is desired for individual commodities or more detailed merchandise line categories than are shown in the report, reporting in greater detail was not feasible. Appendix I gives merchandise line descriptions, codes, and the reporting-form number on which each line appears. Appendix A presents more detailed information about the statistics contained in the report.