Advance Retail Sales: Retail Trade and Food Services
Use escrito dataset fred.RSAFS
The value for the most recent month is an advance estimate that is based on data from a subsample of firms from the larger Monthly Retail Trade Survey. The advance estimate will be superseded in following months by revised estimates derived from the larger Monthly Retail Trade Survey. The associated series from the Monthly Retail Trade Survey is available at https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MRTSSM44X72USS Information about the Advance Monthly Retail Sales Survey can be found on the Census website at https://www.census.gov/retail/marts/about_the_surveys.html
Cite as: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Advance Retail Sales: Retail Trade and Food Services [RSAFS], retrieved from FRED, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RSAFS. This product uses the FRED® API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
- Publisher
- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)
- Tier
- OfficialVerified
- Covers
- 1992–2026
- Places
- not stated
- Updated
- monthly
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Units
- Millions of Dollars
- License
- Public domain, citation requested (FRED API terms of use)
- Method
- https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RSAFS
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | date | the first day of the period |
| value | number | Advance Retail Sales: Retail Trade and Food Services |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| date |