零售销售数据表示从零售商店购买的消费者总数。它提供了有关消费支出的宝贵信息,消费支出构成了GDP的消费部分。汽车、天然气价格和食品价格等最不稳定的组成部分经常从报告中删除,以显示更多潜在的需求模式,因为这些类别的销售变化通常是价格变化的结果。它不因通货膨胀而调整。服务支出不包括在内。


Retail sales data represents total consumer purchase from retail stores. Itprovides valuable information about consumer spending which makes up theconsumption part of GDP. The most volatile components like autos, gas prices andfood prices are often removed from the report to show more underlying demandpatterns as changes in sales in these categories are frequently a result ofprice changes. It is not adjusted for inflation. Spending on services is notincluded.