1. Schedule

• Annual Wholesale Trade Survey (AWTS) - 14 March
• Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS) - 21 March
• Revisions to monthly retail data - 25 May
• Advance Monthly Retail Trade Report - TBD
• Monthly Retail Trade Report - TBD

References

• 2016 Annual Wholesale Trade Report - Summary of changes
• 2016 Annual Retail Trade Survey - Summary of changes

2. Implications

Branches of NAICS applicable to retail sales have been reorganized as follows. The redefinitions are at the six-digit level, but for some branches the retail datasets publish only to the five-digit level; if so, the redefinition has no visible effect.

3. BOC has back-calculated and published full history.

4. We are taking this opportunity to standardize the mnemonics, with these goals:

• Adopt our international concept code structure.
• Use wild card-friendly concept codes for additional indicators specific to the U.S.
• Cease using the concept code prefix "R", which is now reserved for Moody's Analytics estimates.

Provisionally, the changes are as follows, where "..." is the "kind of store" segment, represented by the numeric NAICS code or an alphabetic aggregate.

We have renamed the predecessors (NAICS 2007) with an archive specifier (RT..._I2007UA).

See also

• Data Change: U.S. - BOC retail and food services - Reclassified to NAICS 2012
• Data Change: U.S. - BOC ARTS - Reclassified to NAICS 2012
• Data Change: U.S. - BOC AWTS - Reclassified to NAICS 2012