The following changes were made with the release of the 2022 Annual Retail Trade (ARTS) estimates:

• ARTS estimates were revised to reflect historical corrections to current sample data. Corrections are made to replace previously reported data with more accurate data received at a later date or to replace imputed data with reported data obtained from the company. For more information, refer to the benchmarking section of the Annual Retail Trade Survey methodology page located below:

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/arts/technical-documentation/methodology.html

• The 2022 ARTS included the collection of detailed expense items as part of the Business Expenses Supplement (BES). This supplemental information is requested once every five years. The 2022 detailed expense estimates and measures of sampling variability are included in this release under the Annual Retail Trade Survey Detailed Operating Expenses: 2022 data section. Detailed expense items for the ARTS were last released for 2017. For more information on the detailed expense estimates, pleases see:

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/arts/about/bes.html

• Due to a delay in the availability of nonemployer data from the Nonemployer Statistics program for 2021, the nonemployer data for both 2020 and 2021 were imputed for ARTS in survey year 2021. The 2022 ARTS survey year estimates contain updated nonemployer data for both 2020 and 2021. 2021 nonemployer estimates were also re-imputed based on the updated 2020 estimates and applied to the survey.  For more information, refer to the Estimation and Variance section of the Annual Retail Trade Survey methodology page located below:

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/arts/technical-documentation/methodology.html#par_textimage_462398220