NOTE: THIS DATA FILE WILL CHANGE! To improve accessibility of data for all users, we will convert this file from a text format to an html table by the end of June 2024. Title: Monthly State Retail Sales: Sporting Good, Hobby, Musical Instrument and Book Stores in Connecticut Series ID: MSRSCT451 Source: U.S. Census Bureau Release: Monthly State Retail Sales Seasonal Adjustment: Not Seasonally Adjusted Frequency: Monthly Units: Percent Change from Year Ago Date Range: 2019-01-01 to 2024-01-01 Last Updated: 2024-04-30 11:02 AM CDT Notes: The Monthly State Retail Sales (MSRS) report is a blended data product combining Monthly Retail Trade Survey data, administrative data, and third-party data. Data are available for year-over-year percent changes for Total Retail Sales excluding Nonstore Retailers as well as 11 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) retail subsectors. For more information on the MSRS view the methodology (https://www.census.gov/data/experimental-data-products/monthly-state-retail-sales.html). This is the first version of these experimental data. This series measures retail sales for sporting goods stores; hobby, toy, and game stores; sewing, needlework and piece goods stores; musical instrument and supply stores; book stores; news dealers and newsstands. The listed retailers correspond to 45111, 45112, 45113, 45114, 45121, 45122 in the 2017 NAICS manual. DATE VALUE 2019-01-01 -11.9 2019-02-01 -5.6 2019-03-01 -6.9 2019-04-01 -6.7 2019-05-01 -4.3 2019-06-01 -1.2 2019-07-01 9.2 2019-08-01 3.0 2019-09-01 3.0 2019-10-01 1.0 2019-11-01 2.2 2019-12-01 -1.3 2020-01-01 3.0 2020-02-01 27.8 2020-03-01 -21.1 2020-04-01 . 2020-05-01 6.9 2020-06-01 38.5 2020-07-01 29.9 2020-08-01 9.6 2020-09-01 44.1 2020-10-01 35.7 2020-11-01 23.7 2020-12-01 29.8 2021-01-01 . 2021-02-01 22.7 2021-03-01 110.9 2021-04-01 . 2021-05-01 58.1 2021-06-01 19.9 2021-07-01 17.1 2021-08-01 . 2021-09-01 15.9 2021-10-01 16.8 2021-11-01 15.4 2021-12-01 20.0 2022-01-01 -17.3 2022-02-01 7.7 2022-03-01 -8.7 2022-04-01 -5.2 2022-05-01 -1.8 2022-06-01 -0.6 2022-07-01 4.1 2022-08-01 4.5 2022-09-01 4.4 2022-10-01 0.8 2022-11-01 4.0 2022-12-01 2.8 2023-01-01 18.4 2023-02-01 8.9 2023-03-01 0.7 2023-04-01 -1.3 2023-05-01 0.4 2023-06-01 -1.8 2023-07-01 -2.6 2023-08-01 -6.7 2023-09-01 -2.0 2023-10-01 -5.7 2023-11-01 -2.9 2023-12-01 -5.7 2024-01-01 -6.4