Northern Ireland Statistics Research Agency
December 15
09:30
2022
Details
The Northern Ireland Retail Sales Index is an experimental output designed to measure changes in quarterly output for the retail services sector. The sampling frame used is Inter-departmental Business Register (IDBR). A stratified sampling technique known as the Neyman Allocation is used. The retail sales sector is a subset of the Index of Services and refers to SIC 47 (Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles).