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Wholesale and retail trade sales statistics
The purpose of the statistics is to identify the level and development of wholesale and retail trade.The turnover for a given year is only final when the last period in the following year is published. Both quarterly figures and figures for every second month are available in StatBank.
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- Wholesale and retail sale statistics (NOK million)Download table as ...Wholesale and retail sale statistics (NOK million)1
Turnover Change in per cent 5th period 2023 5th period 2024 5th period 2023 - 5th period 2024 Sale and repair of motor vehicles 59 601 71 826 20.5 Wholesale trade 249 221 259 649 4.2 Retail trade 103 319 104 246 0.9 Grocery trade 36 731 38 388 4.5 E-commerce 7 562 7 969 5.4 1The figures do not include value added tax. Due to uncertainty regarding the statistical population in nace 46, this will be excluded from publication until further notice. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Turnover statistics except wholesale on a fee or contract basis. Turnover excluding VAT. NOK millionDownload table as ...Turnover statistics except wholesale on a fee or contract basis. Turnover excluding VAT. NOK million
5th period 2023 6th period 2023 1st period 2024 2nd period 2024 3rd period 2024 4th period 2024 5th period 2024 Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles 59 601 58 298 49 941 71 468 63 067 59 954 71 826 Sale of motor vehicles 41 608 41 942 35 408 53 084 44 336 42 856 49 533 Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles 10 441 10 575 9 598 11 488 12 155 11 494 13 906 Sale of motor vehicle parts and accessories 7 100 5 397 4 486 6 076 5 767 5 018 7 904 Sale, maintenance and repair of motorcycles and related parts and accessories 453 384 448 820 808 587 483 Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles 249 221 247 069 224 789 238 526 242 134 225 010 259 649 Wholesale of agricultural raw materials and live animals 1 556 1 747 1 710 2 241 2 841 1 683 1 627 Wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco 93 426 94 518 89 522 93 438 90 161 88 415 99 872 Wholesale of household goods 36 656 36 769 32 903 31 420 34 056 33 799 40 451 Wholesale of information and communication equipment 10 956 13 686 10 583 12 361 12 318 9 846 11 885 Wholesale of machinery, equipment and supplies 31 788 33 663 28 033 31 208 32 952 27 621 34 680 Other specialised wholesale 71 223 63 031 59 257 64 797 66 839 60 738 67 710 Non-specialised wholesale trade 3 615 3 654 2 781 3 060 2 966 2 907 3 424 Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles 103 319 120 022 91 557 102 696 115 149 112 747 104 246 Retail sale in non-specialised stores 40 472 46 141 38 471 42 291 45 195 45 563 42 251 Retail sale of food, beverages and tobacco in specialised stores 4 295 6 030 4 090 4 993 5 566 5 579 4 974 Retail sale of automotive fuel in specialised stores 9 990 9 094 8 360 9 372 10 288 10 563 8 019 Retail sale of information and communication equipment in specialised stores 920 1 082 754 733 805 842 863 Retail sale of other household equipment in specialised stores 17 831 19 572 13 826 15 690 18 767 18 565 17 521 Retail sale of cultural and recreation goods in specialised stores 4 197 5 964 3 600 4 708 5 025 5 252 4 264 Retail sale of other goods in specialised stores 17 489 21 682 15 002 17 210 21 406 18 421 17 796 Retail sale via stalls and markets 43 104 23 34 71 96 47 Retail trade not in stores, stalls and markets 8 082 10 353 7 431 7 666 8 026 7 865 8 511 Due to uncertainty regarding the statistical population in nace 46, this will be excluded from publication until further notice. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
About the statistics
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 2 June 2023.
Turnover: Includes dutiable and duty-free sales income from goods and services. Financial revenues, public subsidies or value added tax are not included.
Name: Wholesale and retail trade sales statistics
Topic: Wholesale and retail trade and service activities
Division for Structural Business Statistics
Concerns bimonthly data only: Regular publication of data divided by counties in addition to the data published at national level. Other geographical breakdown can be commissioned.
Bimonthly level-numbers and quarterly indices.
The bimonthly turnover statistics is initially published about seventeen weeks after the expiration of the statistical period. Revised data are then published respectively two and four months after the initial publication.
The quarterly indices are initially published about sixty days after the expiration of the quarter. They are published at the NACE two-digit sector level only (NACE 45 and 46). Revised data are published in connection with the next time publication, i.e. three months after the initial publication.
The published data are being revised up to two calendar years back in time. This is explained in the table beneath, with the quarterly indices as an example. Superscript T refers to the current year, while subscript 1-4 refers to the relevant quarter.
The quarterly indices are reported to Eurostat, both gross data and data adjusted by working days, sixty days after the expiration of the quarter.
Primary data and the compiled statistics are stored electronically in files of the in the programming language SAS.
The purpose of the statistics is to identify the level of and the development of wholesale and retail trade. The statistics has been produced since 1995.
From 1995 to 2006, only the bimonthly data where published nationally. The quarterly indices where published by Eurostat only. As from the first quarter of 2007, the quarterly indices are also published nationally.
Users include public and private sector agencies and organisations. The National Accounts statistics of Statistics Norway rely on the timely production of the Wholesale and Retail Statistics. Other users include the Research department of Statistics Norway.
No external users have access to the statistics and analyses before they are published and accessible simultaneously for all users on ssb.no at 8 am. Prior to this, a minimum of three months' advance notice is given in the Statistics Release Calendar. Principles of communication and dissemination
Similar statistics is being prepared for all dutiable industries. Change in the progress of turnover is compared with the monthly Index of Retail Trade. Both change in progress and level numbers are compared with the annual Structural statistics for Wholesale and Retail Trade.
The Statistics Act, paragraphs 3-2.
EU Council Regulation No 1165/98, May 19, 1998 regarding short-term statistics.
The population is all VAT-registered units within the industries of wholesale and retail trade, repair of vehicles and household goods and personal goods included. Agency business is not part of the population. This means NACE 45, 46 (except 46.1) and NACE 47, according to the Standard of Industrial Classification (SIC2007). State owned units and units owned by the social security administration or local or regional governments are not part of the population. The observed unit is mainly identical to the obliged VAT-registered unit, i.e. enterprises with an annual turnover that exceeds NOK 50 000.
The VAT-register
The Wholesale and Retail Trade Statistics represent full-census survey data for the entire population.
Data are collected from the VAT-register.
Turnover is controlled against earlier received data. If the divergence is considerable, the individual VAT-unit is contacted. Information from the VAT-register is controlled against the Central register of Establishments and Enterprises and the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities.
For the bimonthly statistics the data are summed up. When a VAT-unit consists of more than one active firm, the data is being divided according to registered turnover in the last annual data file from the Central register of Establishments and Enterprises.
The quarterly indices are computed from the bimonthly statistics. Therefore it is needed to divide some of the bimonthly data in two. For the division, the number of workdays within a month is used. The model for calculation of quarterly data is described below:
The variable Q refers to quarterly numbers, B is bimonthly numbers and wd is the number of workdays in March, April, September or October. Superscript T refers to the actual quarter, while subscript T refers to the current year. Subscript j shows that the data is divided into the most detailed NACE level as possible, i.e. three-, four- or five-digit sector level. Subscript h refers to two-digit sector level.
Employees of Statistics Norway have a duty of confidentiality.
Statistics Norway does not publish figures if there is a risk of the respondent’s contribution being identified. This means that, as a general rule, figures are not published if fewer than three units form the basis of a cell in a table or if the contribution of one or two respondents constitutes a very large part of the cell total.
Statistics Norway can make exceptions to the general rule if deemed necessary to meet the requirements of the EEA agreement, if the respondent is a public authority, if the respondent has consented to this, or when the information disclosed is openly accessible to the public.
More information can be found on Statistics Norway’s website under Methods in official statistics, in the ‘Confidentiality’ section.
To ensure confidentiality, the ‘suppression’ method is used in these statistics.
In the period 1995 to 2002 the statistics was published according to the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC1994). From 2002 is has been published according to the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC2002), and from 2009 is has been published according to the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC2007)
Changes in the statistics: Before the first bimonthly term of 2001, the statistics only included dutiable sales. From the first term of 2001, the statistics includes both dutiable and duty-fee sales.
Measurement errors (the respondent gives erroneous data) and processing errors (wrong interpretation of digits and letters written on paper forms during optical scanning) may occur. These types of errors are tried to avoid through control routines, as explained in chapter 3.5. Another possible error may occur, if there are used out of date distribution formulas to divide turnover in cases where a VAT-unit consists of more than one firms.
Errors in the estimation of quarterly indices may occur if the development between first and second term, or fourth and fifth term, in the bimonthly statistics is substantially different last year and this year.
The County Revenue Office is contacted in cases where big enterprises have failed to respond. For the first and second time publication, unit non-response is imputated. By the third and last publication, the turnover for unit non-response is set to cero.
Not relevant
Other errors in the VAT-register, under reporting included. This is difficult to value, but it is assumed not to represent a substantial source of errors.