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The Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services is the earliest available monthly estimates of broad-based retail trade activity and consumer spending. The survey provides reliable measures of current economic activity that are essential to an objective assessment of the need for, and impact of, a wide range of public policy decisions.
For more information on this topic:
Service Sector Statistics Division,
U.S. Census Bureau
1-800-327-4389 option 1 - MARTS/MRTS/EC
fax: 301-763-8385 (secure)
email: retail.trade@census.gov
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