The scope of the Retail Outlets Survey consists of enterprises belonging to the small-scale craft industry category (NAF rev. 2 categories 10.13B - Small-scale meat preparation, 10.71B - Baking of bread products, 10.71C - Bakery -pastry shop and 10.71D - Pastry-making) or in the retail trade (division 47) and owning at least one shop.

Furthermore, retail businesses with no physical retail outlet (groups 47.8 and 47.9) are out of the scope of the survey.