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Revisions in these statistics

The data of the statistics have become revised according to the table below. For more information about data revisions, see Section 3 of the quality description (only in Finnish).

Revision of annual changes in working day adjusted turnover in industries of trade ¹⁾

Industry / Reference period		Year-on-year change,%		Revision, percentage point
		1st release	Latest release (2020-10-14)
G Total trade	03/2020	-2.1	-0.2	1.9
	04/2020	-6.2	-7.8	-1.6
	05/2020	-5.0	-5.1	-0.1
	06/2020	-2.7	-1.7	1.0
	07/2020	1.1	0.8	-0.3
45 Motor vehicle trade	03/2020	-4.6	-3.2	1.4
	04/2020	-22.3	-21.1	1.2
	05/2020	-16.5	-14.4	2.1
	06/2020	-7.1	-5.7	1.4
	07/2020	5.0	6.3	1.3
46 Wholesale trade	03/2020	-2.4	-0.5	1.9
	04/2020	-5.1	-8.4	-3.3
	05/2020	-8.6	-9.4	-0.8
	06/2020	-7.1	-5.4	1.7
	07/2020	-2.6	-3.3	-0.7
47 Retail trade	03/2020	-0.2	1.8	2.0
	04/2020	-1.3	-0.5	0.8
	05/2020	6.0	6.4	0.4
	06/2020	6.6	6.3	-0.3
	07/2020	4.9	4.7	-0.2
Daily consumer goods trade (4711, 472)	03/2020	6.4	7.6	1.2
	04/2020	6.2	6.6	0.4
	05/2020	11.5	12.1	0.6
	06/2020	8.4	8.4	0.0
	07/2020	5.2	5.2	0.0
Department store trade (4719)	03/2020	-12.0	-11.8	0.2
	04/2020	-5.2	-3.9	1.3
	05/2020	6.0	8.5	2.5
	06/2020	13.1	13.0	-0.1
	07/2020	4.9	5.1	0.2
Specialised store trade (474-477)	03/2020	-6.3	-0.9	5.4
	04/2020	-9.2	-8.0	1.2
	05/2020	-3.6	0.2	3.8
	06/2020	1.8	3.9	2.1
	07/2020	5.0	4.5	-0.5

1) The 1st release refers to the time when data for the reference period were released for the first time. The revision describes the difference of annual change percentages between the first and latest release.

Revision of long-term annual changes in working day adjusted turnover in industries of trade

Industry / Year		Average 1)	Average for absolute values 2)
G Total trade	2016	0.3	0.7
	2017	0.0	0.6
	2018	0.2	0.6
45 Motor vehicle trade	2016	0.3	0.8
	2017	0.1	0.6
	2018	0.6	1.1
46 Wholesale trade	2016	0.7	1.0
	2017	0.0	0.8
	2018	0.3	0.8
47 Retail trade	2016	-0.2	0.7
	2017	-0.2	0.6
	2018	-0.1	0.5
Daily consumer goods trade (4711, 472)	2016	-0.3	0.5
	2017	-0.2	0.5
	2018	0.3	0.4
Department store trade (4719)	2016	-0.4	0.4
	2017	0.1	0.9
	2018	-0.3	0.3

1) The average have been calculated upon completion of the data for the first and last release months in the statistical reference year, when the official structural business and financial statement statistics are also published.
2) The average have been calculated from the absolute values of differences between the first and last release months in the statistical reference year, when the official structural business and financial statement statistics are also published.

Source: Turnover of trade, Statistics Finland

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Updated 14.10.2020