Monthly Survey of Trade
Technical Note
With the release of the indicators of January of 2004, IBGE started a series about the retail trade in the country (2003 base = 100).
As a result, the PMC made available two sets of tables for the variables “volume of sales” and “nominal revenue of sales”. The first set refers to retail trade per se and continues the series started in January of 2000. The chained series, started in January of 2000 and following up to the last month of the survey, is available at the System of Automatic Retrieval – SIDRA. The monthly index, accumulated in the year and accumulated in 12 months series, which had been already published, did not change.
The second set of tables, named “Extended Retail Trade”, aggregates the activities of “Vehicles and Motorcycles, Parts and Accessories” and “Construction Material”, which include whole sales, to the retail index.
In addition, the subsector of “ Other Articles of Personal and Household Use” was disaggregated in the following indicator series: “Pharmaceutical and Medical Goods, Cosmetic and Toilet Articles”, “Office, Computer and Communication Equipment and Material”, “Books, Newspapers, Magazines and Stationery” and “Other Articles of Personal and Household Use”.
With the release of the indicators of February of 2004, IBGE will make available the complete series of the new indexes.