Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to methods and systems for macroeconomic indication, including electronically selectively mapping a plurality of merchant classification data to sub-sector economic data for payment card transactions classification. The method may electronically receive a plurality of retail sales data based on the payment card transactions classification over a predetermined period of time to define an economic time series dataset; electronically adjust the economic time series dataset based on an autoregressive integrated moving average; and electronically transform the economic time series dataset after the adjusting step by using linear regression to define a predefined time period percentage change in the periodic data.
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