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Chicago Fed Advance Retail Trade Summary Weekly Index of Retail Trade (DISCONTINUED) (CARTSI)

Observations

2022-03-28: 506,410
Updated: Apr 11, 2022 9:06 AM CDT
2022-03-28:  506,410  
2022-03-21:  506,757  
2022-03-14:  506,511  
2022-03-07:  510,742  
2022-02-28:  518,483  

Units:

Millions of Dollars,
Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:

Weekly

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Notes

Title Release Dates
Chicago Fed Advance Retail Trade Summary Weekly Index of Retail Trade 2021-06-25 2022-12-22
Chicago Fed Advance Retail Trade Summary Weekly Index of Retail Trade (DISCONTINUED) 2022-12-23 2022-12-23
 
Source    
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 2021-06-25 2022-12-23
 
Release    
Chicago Fed Advance Retail Trade Summary 2021-06-25 2022-12-23
 
Units    
Millions of Dollars 2021-06-25 2022-12-23
 
Frequency    
Weekly 2021-06-25 2022-12-23
 
Seasonal Adjustment    
Seasonally Adjusted 2021-06-25 2022-12-23
 
Notes    
As described in Introducing CARTS: A New Index Tracking National Retail Spending (https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/blogs/chicago-fed-insights/2021/introducing-carts), The Chicago Fed Advance Retail Trade Summary (CARTS) refers to a weekly index of national retail spending that tracks the U.S. Census Bureau's Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MRTS) using a mixed-frequency dynamic factor model to combine high-frequency time series from five private companies (Consumer Edge, Facteus, Morning Consult, SafeGraph, and Womply), as well as two federal agencies (the U.S. Energy Information Administration and the U.S. Census Bureau).

The first release of the month covers the entirety of the previous month (final release), and the second release covers the first half of the current month (preliminary release). All weekly data are adjusted such that each month has four weeks, running from the 1st through 7th, 8th through 14th, 15th through 21st, and 22nd through the final day of the month. Additional information is available online (https://www.chicagofed.org/carts).

The CARTS weekly index series measures retail trade in millions of dollars.

For technical details, see:

Brave, Scott A., Michael Fogarty, Daniel Aaronson, Ezra Karger, and Spencer Krane, 2021, Tracking U.S. consumers in real time with a new weekly index of retail trade (https://www.chicagofed.org/~/media/publications/working-papers/2021/wp2021-05-pdf.pdf), Working Paper 2021-05, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.21033/wp-2021-052

2021-06-25 2022-12-23

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