US real retail sales, monthly
Monthly US real (inflation-adjusted) retail + food-services sales intelligence panel, 1992-01 onward: advance retail and food services sales deflated to millions of 1982-84 CPI-adjusted dollars (seasonally adjusted; FRED RRSFS, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, constructed as RSAFS deflated by CPIAUCSL, redistributed keyless via FRED fredgraph.csv). Carries 1-month and 12-month changes (levels and percents), the 3-month annualized percent change, and a contraction_flag marking months with lower real sales than a year earlier. Scope note: pair with us_advance_retail_food_sales_monthly for the nominal/real price-vs-volume split (RRSFS only updates when RSAFS or CPIAUCSL update). Method caveats: latest month is an advance subsample estimate; history revised with each vintage (kept as published, never back-filled); genuine upstream gaps are kept as honest nulls, never imputed.
- Rows
- 416
- Columns
- 12
- Source cadence
- Monthly
- Last refreshed
- Oct 1, 2026
- Theme
- economy
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| month_start | date | First day of the calendar month. (unit: date) |
| year_month | string | Calendar month as YYYY-MM (panel join key). (unit: string) |
| country | string | Country name (shared normalization layer). (unit: string) |
| country_code | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (USA). (unit: string) |
| retail_real_millions | float | Advance real retail-trade and food-services sales, deflated to 1982-84 dollars (FRED RRSFS; Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis). Null for months FRED serves with no observation (genuine upstream gaps, never imputed). (unit: millions of 1982-84 dollars, SA) |
| retail_real_mom_millions | float | 1-month change in the level (null for the first panel month). (unit: millions of 1982-84 dollars, SA) |
| retail_real_mom_pct | float | 1-month percent change in the level (null for the first panel month). (unit: percent) |
| retail_real_yoy_millions | float | 12-month change in the level (null for the first panel year). (unit: millions of 1982-84 dollars, SA) |
| retail_real_yoy_pct | float | 12-month percent change in the level (null for the first panel year). (unit: percent) |
| retail_real_3m_ann_pct | float | 3-month annualized percent change in the level (null for the first 3 panel months). (unit: percent) |
| contraction_flag | integer | 1 when 12-month growth is negative (a lower level than a year earlier), 0 when non-negative, null when the 12-month change cannot be computed (panel warm-up year or a genuine upstream gap inside the 12-month window). (unit: flag) |
| row_hash | string | Deterministic 16-hex sha256 of year_month + the level (idempotency key). (unit: string) |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| month_start | year_month | country | country_code | retail_real_millions | retail_real_mom_millions | retail_real_mom_pct | retail_real_yoy_millions | retail_real_yoy_pct | retail_real_3m_ann_pct | contraction_flag | row_hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992-01-01 | 1992-01 | United States | USA | 115,095 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 00ab1e8d832664ff |
| 1992-02-01 | 1992-02 | United States | USA | 114,855 | -240 | -0.209 | — | — | — | — | 167148df068a7559 |
| 1992-03-01 | 1992-03 | United States | USA | 114,052 | -803 | -0.699 | — | — | — | — | 289028d71ec3a0c0 |
| 1992-04-01 | 1992-04 | United States | USA | 114,721 | 669 | 0.587 | — | — | -1.293 | — | bc141ad3a70d9441 |
| 1992-05-01 | 1992-05 | United States | USA | 114,868 | 147 | 0.128 | — | — | 0.045 | — | e21f39102a73ffb2 |
| 1992-06-01 | 1992-06 | United States | USA | 115,064 | 196 | 0.171 | — | — | 3.597 | — | 054f7f64984b2b49 |
| 1992-07-01 | 1992-07 | United States | USA | 115,911 | 847 | 0.736 | — | — | 4.214 | — | 9006504a8147b9d8 |
| 1992-08-01 | 1992-08 | United States | USA | 115,349 | -562 | -0.485 | — | — | 1.686 | — | 25237f5feae5c886 |
| 1992-09-01 | 1992-09 | United States | USA | 116,485 | 1,136 | 0.985 | — | — | 5.032 | — | 6df08594cf9f9c90 |
| 1992-10-01 | 1992-10 | United States | USA | 117,193 | 708 | 0.608 | — | — | 4.498 | — | 0516c95abefc117f |
Profiled Oct 1, 2026 from snapshot 20261001T220334Z-b8c6b1074e3d
Measured- Completeness
- 99%
- Rows
- 416
- Columns
- 12
- Columns with gaps
- 7
| Column | Missing | Distinct | Range | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| month_startdate | 0% | 385 | Jan 1, 1992 → Aug 1, 2026 | — |
| year_monthvarchar | 0% | 408 | — |
|
| countryvarchar | 0% | 1 | — |
|
| country_codevarchar | 0% | 1 | — |
|
| retail_real_millionsdouble | 0.24% | 430 | 114,052 → 231,630median 169,914 | 10 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| retail_real_mom_millionsdouble | 0.72% | 478 | -24,835 → 30,407median 298 | 10 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| retail_real_mom_pctdouble | 0.72% | 459 | -13.69 → 19.41median 0.1961 | 10 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| retail_real_yoy_millionsdouble | 3.1% | 469 | -39,010 → 71,773median 3,707 | 10 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| retail_real_yoy_pctdouble | 3.1% | 446 | -19.94 → 45.82median 2.22 | 10 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| retail_real_3m_ann_pctdouble | 1.2% | 488 | -61.46 → 186.14median 2.3 | 10 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| contraction_flagbigint | 3.1% | 2 | 0 → 1median 0 | |
| row_hashvarchar | 0% | 439 | — |
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- Current
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416 rows · first snapshot
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/fred_retail_sales_intel/us_real_retail_sales_monthly" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/fred_retail_sales_intel/us_real_retail_sales_monthly").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/fred_retail_sales_intel/us_real_retail_sales_monthly
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US Advance Retail-Sales Intelligence (FRED, keyless). (2026). US real retail sales, monthly [Data set, snapshot 20261001T220334Z-b8c6b1074e3d, sha256 b8c6b1074e3d]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-10-02, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/fred_retail_sales_intel/us_real_retail_sales_monthly?snapshot=20261001T220334Z-b8c6b1074e3d
@misc{dz_fred_retail_sales_intel_us_real_retail_s_b8c6b107,
title = {{US real retail sales, monthly}},
author = {{US Advance Retail-Sales Intelligence (FRED, keyless)}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/fred_retail_sales_intel/us_real_retail_sales_monthly?snapshot=20261001T220334Z-b8c6b1074e3d}},
note = {Snapshot 20261001T220334Z-b8c6b1074e3d, sha256 b8c6b1074e3d7439f27b51e6528d8150437456ccc3b61219363d890dc43fcfb8; accessed 2026-10-02}
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