The section represents data on retail, wholesale trade and consumer market of services. The data characterize the activities of organisations of retail and wholesale trade. The state of retail and wholesale are illustrated by data on trade turnover, indices of retail trade physical volume turnover. Information is given on commodity structure, sales of main food and non-food products, the quality of goods in consumer market. The statistical data are shown on the sales of goods (products) by industrial enterprises and organisations of wholesale trade, on the stock of goods (products) at industrial enterprises, organisation of wholesale and retail trade, on the activities of commodity stock exchanges.

The section also represents statistical data characterizing the consumer market of services. The data in value terms are given in actual prices. Changes in the volume of market services rendered to population are characterized by volume indices calculated by comparing its value for the recorded and basic periods adjusted for inflation by the index of consumer prices for services.

Retail trade turnover - a return from goods sold to population for own consumption or for use in households and paid by cash or credit cards, by bank cheques, from bank accounts of individuals by bank transfer or by payment cards.

The value of goods sold with discount to selected categories of population or paid completely by social security bodies is to be included in the total retail trade turnover with nominal prices. Retail trade turnover does not include cost of goods, sold by retail trade network to legal entities (including bodies of social security, special customers etc.) and individual entrepreneurs and public catering turnover.

Food products retail trade turnover includes cost of food products sold to population, and also cost of sold alcoholic beverages.

Retail trade turnover data include the cost of goods sold to population by organisations for which retail trade is the main kind of their activity, by organisations of other sectors of the economy, if they sell goods to population go over their own trade establishments or with payments made over pay-desk. Retail trade turnover also includes the value of goods sold by individual entrepreneurs and individuals (physical persons) in retail markets and fairs.

Retail trade turnover is formed on the basis of the complete federal statistical survey of commercial organisation, which are not a subject of small business, sample survey on small businesses engaged in retail trade (except micro-enterprises), commodity markets conducted monthly, as well as the annual sample survey of individual entrepreneurs (since 2007) and micro-enterprises . Data collected while these surveys mentioned above are grossing up on the general population of units under observations

Retail trade turnover is given at actual selling prices, which include trade margin, value added tax and similar compulsory payments.

Wholesale turnover - is a return of goods sold, purchased previously outside with the aim to resell to legal entities and individual entrepreneurs for professional use (reprocessing or further sale).

Wholesale turnover include data of organisations for which wholesale trade id the main kind of activity as well as for other organisation engaged in wholesale trade.

Wholesale turnover is given at actual selling prices, which include trade margin, value added tax, excise, export duty, custom dues and similar compulsory payments. The sum of attorney's and agent's remuneration is reflected in the actual value including VAT.

Besides in accordance with the National account requirements the wholesale turnove is to be revised and adjusted to the volume of hidden activities.

Data on retail trade (wholesale) turnover for 2007was revised according to results of the annual surveys of medium organisations and small businesses.

Dynamics of retail trade and wholesale and sales of selected goods is characterized by volume indices which are defined by comparability of a turnover value for reporting and basis periods at constant prices.

The quarterly survey on business activities of retail trade organisations¹) is representative sample surveys which are representative by territories and cover all groups of organisations by size and ownership types. While the grossing up sample assessments for the general population these assessments are adjusted (corrected) according to the structure of the general population.

The balances of assessment of indicators (in percentage) are used as simple indicators of results of surveys. They are determined as the difference of shares of respondents who indicated "increase" and "decrease" of the indicator in comparison with the previous period or as the difference of shares of respondents who assessed the level of indicator as "higher than normal" and "lower than normal".

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