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Revisions in these statistics

The data of the statistics have become revised according to the table below. For more information about data revisions, see Section 3 of the quality description (only in Finnish).

Revision of annual changes in working day adjusted turnover in industries of trade ¹⁾

Industry / Reference period		Year-on-year change,%		Revision, percentage point
		1st release	Latest release (2021-05-12)
G Total trade	10/2020	-1.0	-1.0	0.0
	11/2020	0.8	1.4	0.6
	12/2020	-1.9	-1.8	0.1
	01/2021	1.9	2.0	0.1
	02/2021	3.9	4.5	0.6
45 Motor vehicle trade	10/2020	-5.6	-3.6	2.0
	11/2020	1.7	3.3	1.6
	12/2020	0.2	1.5	1.3
	01/2021	5.8	6.0	0.2
	02/2021	4.2	6.1	1.9
46 Wholesale trade	10/2020	-2.9	-3.4	-0.5
	11/2020	-2.9	-2.2	0.7
	12/2020	-4.9	-5.1	-0.2
	01/2021	-1.2	-0.6	0.6
	02/2021	2.5	3.1	0.6
47 Retail trade	10/2020	4.6	4.7	0.1
	11/2020	7.1	6.9	-0.2
	12/2020	2.0	2.4	0.4
	01/2021	5.3	4.7	-0.6
	02/2021	4.8	4.5	-0.3
Daily consumer goods trade (4711, 472)	10/2020	8.8	9.6	0.8
	11/2020	9.2	7.9	-1.3
	12/2020	5.3	6.2	0.9
	01/2021	7.7	6.9	-0.8
	02/2021	7.6	6.7	-0.9
Department store trade (4719)	10/2020	3.8	3.5	-0.3
	11/2020	7.4	6.4	-1.0
	12/2020	2.2	3.0	0.8
	01/2021	7.3	6.9	-0.4
	02/2021	2.3	1.9	-0.4
Specialised store trade (474-477)	10/2020	1.1	0.3	-0.8
	11/2020	3.2	5.2	2.0
	12/2020	-1.1	-0.9	0.2
	01/2021	1.3	1.2	-0.1
	02/2021	-3.1	-3.1	0.0

1) The 1st release refers to the time when data for the reference period were released for the first time. The revision describes the difference of annual change percentages between the first and latest release.

Revision of long-term annual changes in working day adjusted turnover in industries of trade

Industry / Year		Average 1)	Average for absolute values 2)
G Total trade	2017	0.0	0.6
	2018	0.2	0.6
	2019	-0.1	0.4
45 Motor vehicle trade	2017	0.1	0.6
	2018	0.6	1.1
	2019	0.4	0.5
46 Wholesale trade	2017	0.0	0.8
	2018	0.3	0.8
	2019	-0.3	0.8
47 Retail trade	2017	-0.2	0.6
	2018	-0.1	0.5
	2019	0.0	0.4
Daily consumer goods trade (4711, 472)	2017	-0.2	0.5
	2018	0.3	0.4
	2019	-0.1	0.3
Department store trade (4719)	2017	0.1	0.9
	2018	-0.3	0.3
	2019	0.0	0.2

1) The average have been calculated upon completion of the data for the first and last release months in the statistical reference year, when the official structural business and financial statement statistics are also published.
2) The average have been calculated from the absolute values of differences between the first and last release months in the statistical reference year, when the official structural business and financial statement statistics are also published.

Source: Turnover of trade, Statistics Finland

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Updated 12.05.2021