The Czech Statistical Office (CZSO) will change the structure of the News Release on Retail Trade. The new shape of the News Release with sales in retail trade for January 2015 will be published on Friday 13 March 2015.

The CZSO will present the data for CZ-NACE 47 division (Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles) as primary data and it will continue to comment on the CZ-NACE 45 (Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles). The aggregation of CZ-NACE 45 + 47 (Retail trade, including the automotive segment) will no longer be published in the texts of the News Releases. Due to historical continuity the CZSO will keep publishing that piece of data in the table published together with the News Release as well as in the time series.

“The change has been made in order to make News Releases on Retail Trade comparable with corresponding releases of other European countries that do not provide the data for the NACE 45 + 47 aggregation. The modification at the same time takes into account requests of users for whom the News Release on Retail Trade will be more clearly arranged and understandable,” as Jana Gotvaldová, head of the Trade, Transport and Information Service Activities Statistics Unit of the CZSO, said.

News Releases on Retail Trade on the website of the Czech Statistical Office:
/csu/czso/retail-trade

News Releases of the CZSO:
/csu/czso/news_releases_archive

Contact:
Jana Gotvaldová
Trade, Transport and Information Service Activities Statistics Unit of the CZSO
Phone No.: (+420) 274 052 691
E-mail: jana.gotvaldova@czso.cz