Estimated Quarterly U.S. Retail E-commerce Sales as a Percent of Total Quarterly Retail Sales: 4th Quarter 1999–2nd Quarter 2009
The Graph of the Week comes from the Census Department's Quarterly E-Commerce Survey. From the report:
The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced today that the estimate of U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the second quarter of 2009, adjusted for seasonal variation, but not for price changes, was $32.4 billion, an increase of 2.2 percent (±1.2%) from the first quarter of 2009. Total retail sales for the second quarter of 2009 were estimated at $906.0 billion, a decrease of 0.4 percent (±0.4%)* from the first quarter of 2009. The second quarter 2009 e commerce estimate decreased 4.4 percent (±2.1%) from the second quarter of 2008 while total retail sales decreased 10.8 percent (±0.4%) in the same period. E-commerce sales in the second quarter of 2009 accounted for 3.6 percent of total sales..
You can find the press release at http://www.census.gov/retail/mrts/www/data/html/09Q2.html, and more information about retail sales at http://www.census.gov/retail/
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