Brazil - Retail Sales

For Brazil, retail activity detailed by kind of store under CNAE, by index (monthly) and level (annual).

Retail sales index

Active:

• Native name: Pesquisa Mensal de Comércio (PMC)
• Classification: CNAE 2.0, localization of UN ISIC Rev. 4
• Measurements:
  • Percent change in volume, year-over-year (% Y/Y)
  • Fixed-base volume index relative to 2014
  • Fixed-base value index relative to 2014
• Adjustment: Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
• Native frequency: Monthly
• Start date: As early as 2001m1
• Geo coverage:
  • Country
  • State (27x IBRA_^^) for general index only

Predecessors:

• 2011=100, subnational - 2000m1 to 2016m12
• 2003=100, subnational - 2000m1 to 2011m12 ("03")

Retail turnover

Active:

• Native name: Pesquisa Anual de Comércio (PAC)
• Classification: CNAE 2.0
• Measurement: Thousands Brazilian reais (Ths. BRL)
• Adjustment: Not applicable
• Native frequency: Annual
• Start date: Uniformly 2007
• Geo coverage: Country

Predecessor:

• CNAE 1.0 - 1996 to 2007

Monthly indexes

The IBGE's Monthly Survey of Trade (PMC) is responsible for gathering trade data for Brazil and each of its 26 states. This monthly survey gathers retail trade values utilizing probabilistic sampling to create estimates. The following are the reported indicators:

• Volume index of retail sales 
• Index of nominal revenue of retail sales
• Volume index of vehicles, motorcycles, breaks, and parts
• Index of nominal revenue of vehicles, motorcycles, breaks, and parts sales

The survey sample is stratified and probabilistic registration by State and eleven activities, called natural strata. For each natural strata are created three strata: 

1. Managerial (G) is the stratum consisting of companies that operate in more than one Unidade da Federação (UF).
2. Certain (C) is the stratum composed of large companies, defined according to a statistical criterion variable in Gross Sale for UF x activity, acting on only one UF. sampled (A). Stratum is composed of firms that act not considered large in a single UF 
3. Companies of managerial strata (L) or right (C ) were all included in the sample, while in each final stratum sampled (A) sample firms were selected using the technique of simple random sampling without replacement.

Annual levels

Source tables:

• Pesquisa Anual de Comércio, Tabela 1400 - Demonstrativo de receita das empresas comerciais por divisão de comércio, grupo e classe de atividade (CNAE 2.0) - Mil Reais
• Annual Commerce Survey, Table 1400 - Income statement of commercial companies by trade division, group and activity class (CNAE 2.0) - Thousand Reais

The annual release contains revisions for the previous several years.

The survey was expanded to the Salvador and Recife metro areas in 1997.

Further reading

At the source:

• Methodology 2015 (pdf)
• Data product 9227: Pesquisa Mensal de Comércio
• Data product 755: Pesquisa Anual de Comércio (PAC)
• PAC 2019
• PAC 2019 report (pdf)