KIND OF BUSINESS

Retail Trade-Department Stores

743

No. 1246. RETAIL TRADE--MERCHANDISE INVENTORIES AND SALES-INVENTORY RATIOS: 1970 AND 1971

[As of Dec. 31. Multiunit organizations comprise 11 or more stores]

NA Not available.

1 Ratio of annual sales to year-end inventories of stores in business the full year. Based on store inventories only. Excludes warehouses. 21970 data revised. Comparable revisions to data prior to 1970 are not available. 3 Includes kinds of business not shown separately.

No. 1247. DEPARTMENT STORES-SALES, INVENTORIES, AND ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE: 1970 To 1972

[In millions of dollars, except as indicated. Merchandise inventories and accounts receivable as of Dec. 31. Department stores are stores normally employing 25 or more persons, carrying a general line of apparel, homefurnishings, and housewares, but with no one of the 3 categories accounting for as much as 80 percent of total sales]

NA Not available.

1 Organizations operating 11 or more retail stores. 2 See footnote 3, table 1244.

3 Based on civilian population estimates as of July 1. See footnote 3, table 1216.

Ratio of annual sales to year-end inventories. Receivables for which full payment is scheduled to be made at end of customary billing period. 7 Receivables scheduled to be paid in 2 or more payments.

Source of tables 1246 and 1247: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Annual Retail Trade Report, and unpublished data.

No. 1248. RETAIL TRADE-SALES, BY BROAD MERCHANDISE LINES: 1963 AND 1967 [Includes only establishments with payroll. Multiunit organizations comprise 11 establishments or more]

Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census of Business: 1963, vol. I, and 1967, BC 67-MLS 1.

No. 1249.

RETAIL TRADE-SIZE OF ESTABLISHMENT AND LEGAL FORM
ORGANIZATION: 1963 AND 1967

[Establishments and paid employees in thousands; money figures in millions of dollars]

OF

No. 1250. RETAIL TRADE-ESTABLISHMENTS AND SALES, 1958 to 1967, AND PAID EMPLOYEES AND PAYROLL, 1967

[Establishments and paid employees in thousands; money figures in billions of dollars]

Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census of Business: 1958, 1963, and 1967, vol. II.

Retail Trade

1963, AND 1967, AND PAYROLL, 1967, BY KIND OF BUSINESS details exclude, Alaska and Hawaii]

747

For 1963 and 1967, includes home and auto supply stores.

Excludes custom tailors.

Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census of Business: 1963, vol. I, and 1967, vol. II.