4.4. INTERNAL TRADE

Retail network

Retail shop: units selling commercial products mainly to inhabitants.

Source of data: a statistical register based on municipal databases in line with the government decree on the operation of shops (until June 2009) as well as with the government decree on retail sales (since October 2009).

Data on the number of retail shops:include units at the end of the reference period. The frequency of the data collection has been changed from quarterly to half yearly since 2007. As a result of an amendment in 2009 it is not possible to publish data as of 31 December 2009 and 30 June 2010.

Type of shop: main statistical activity of a shop subject to the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities.

Sales space of retail shops: real (or estimated) area of the sales facility to sell and display (in m2). Floor space data are based on municipal and partly on corporate surveys as well as on estimated data.

Enterprise with a retail shop in operation: enterprise with shop based retail sales.

Legal form an enterprise with a retail shops: legal form according to the current classification of HCSO.

Human pharmacy: shops to primarily provide direct and overall medicine supply for ill people. There is a separate stADAT table on human pharmacy data.

Data on human pharmacies: are derived from administrative data. Data include the number of institutional pharmacies selling prescription drugs.

Shopping centre: such architecturally integrated, purpose-built and -designed, jointly operated retail complex, which is an organic unit of different type and size shops, service (e.g. catering) and leisure facilities (cinema, sporting units etc) providing services for a given attraction area. The specialized shopping centres are included. In the practice of several countries shopping centres have a lower limit of 10 thousand square meters of floor area. Taking into account domestic characteristics, units with minimum 5 thousand square meters being in line with the definition are also considered as shopping centres.

Detached hypermarkets or specialized stores with a large floor area as well as those with only some closely related, complementary retail, hospitality or service (e.g. delivering) units with a small floor area (e.g. IKEA, DOMUS, Interspar warehouses) are not shopping centres.

Department stores of the former period (e.g. Corvin, Skála) are also excluded.

Hypermarket: is a self-service retail outlet offering a wide range of food products and industrial goods with a trading area of at least 3000 square meters, usually with an own parking area. Wholesale warehouses (e.g. METRO) are not classified among hypermarkets.

Retail trade turnover by commodity group

Retail sales by commodity group: data on the quarterly sales of enterprises with retail activity by commodity structure.

Retail trade turnover by groups of shops

Retail trade turnover: retail sales at current consumer prices, inclusive of value added tax and excise duty. (Sales of market stands and of occasional street vendors are excluded from this observation.)

Volume index of retail trade turnover: an index calculated from value indices of retail sales, using deflator price indices based on representatives of consumer prices.

Sales statistics of retail trade are based on a representative data collection on retailing activities. Retail trade statistics cover all retail shops, pharmacies as well as mail order networks. Estimations are calculated in accordance with the activity groups specified in Council Regulation No. 1165/98 of the European Union.

The revision policy of monthly retail trade data:

Methodological source: monthly first releases on Retail trade.

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