Monthly survey in the retail trade and in the trade and repair of motor vehicles 2019
Consulter
Sommaire
Traitement statistique
Frequency of data collection
Monthly
Data collection
Data collection is by post and via the internet over a period that extends from the end of the month preceding the survey month to the survey publication date, i.e. 4 business days before the end of the current month.
Survey results are sent to the European Commission 4 business days before the end of the month.
Data collection period
The collection period runs from the end of the month preceding the reference month of the survey to the date of publication of the results (between the 20th and 25th of the reference month).
Collection mode
- By post mail
- By Internet
Survey unit
- Legal unit
- Enterprise
Sampling method
The survey covers 3,750 companies.
All companies with more than 100 employees are canvassed excepted hypermarkets (4711F). For the hypermarkets, the threshold of exhaustivity is 300 employees.
Sample size
3,200 units
Data collection documents
The survey is conducted every month but not all questions are asked every month.
In practice, three models of questionnaires were created to take into account these
specificities :
- the first questionnaire corresponds to the months of January and July.
- the second one is sent in February, April, June, August, October and December.
- the last one is sent in March, May, September and November.
- January and July Questionnaire (pdf, fr, 53 Ko, 07/02/2019)
- Questionnaire February, April, June, August, September, October and December (pdf, fr, 67 Ko, 07/02/2019)
- Questionnaire for March, May and November (pdf, fr, 69 Ko, 07/02/2019)