Periodical survey of retail trade

Producer:	Statistics Finland
Data:	Latest release: Food and beverages the largest retail trade product group in 2007 13 May 2009 Food and beverages accounted for the largest share of retail trade sales in 2007. Their share of the total turnover of retail trade was over 40 per cent. The second largest group was textiles, clothing and footwear, which accounted for approximately 10 per cent of total sales. The share of electronic and domestic appliances of the total turnover was 9 per cent, in which the combined share of computers and telecommunications equipment were clearly less than one-third, or 2.2 per cent. The data derive from Statistics Finland's periodical survey of retail trade concerning the year 2007. Next release: Statistical releases will not be issued in English from these statistics in 2013.
Description:	The survey of retail trade is conducted at intervals of a fixed number of years as an inquiry among enterprises that cover all branches of retail trade. Enterprises into the survey sample are selected so that they represent all enterprise size categories from all branches of retail trade. The responses received from the sampled enterprises are multiplied to represent data for all the enterprises in the frame by branch. The data describe the distribution of retail trade turnover by product, retail trade purchases by type of supplier and retail sales floor areas. The first periodical survey was conducted in 2003 concerning 2002 and the next one will concern the year 2007. Read full description >>>
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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Periodical survey of retail trade [e-publication].
Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 8.10.2013].
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