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Table 3. Wholesale Merchants Sample Response Fraction and Coefficient of Variation for Sales

  Response fraction Coefficient of variation  
Novemberp
2002
Octoberr
2002
September
2002
August
2002
Novemberp
2002
Octoberr
2002
September
2002
August
2002
 
% % % % % % % %  
                 
Trade Group - Canada                  
Food products 91.8 94.9 95.6 95.3 2.5 2.3 2.5 2.6  
Beverage, drug and tobacco products 96.3 96.6 96.7 96.6 2.4 2.4 2.7 2.1  
Apparel and dry goods 90.5 94.5 94.2 93.9 8.2 9.7 11.5 9.9  
Household goods 96.9 96.5 95.0 92.5 5.6 5.9 6.1 5.3  
Motor vehicles, parts and accessories 98.8 99.1 98.5 98.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.8  
Metals, hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies 86.0 89.1 87.3 92.5 4.5 4.2 3.9 3.6  
Lumber and building materials 89.0 92.4 92.1 92.6 4.5 4.2 4.4 4.1  
Farm machinery, equipment and supplies 82.6 87.5 88.3 87.6 5.1 4.7 5.5 4.9  
Industrial and other machinery, equipment and supplies 83.3 88.3 88.8 87.2 3.3 3.4 3.2 3.5  
Computers, packaged software and other electronic machinery 77.1 85.1 87.5 88.3 4.7 4.6 4.7 4.8  
Other products 86.1 90.4 92.1 91.8 3.3 3.5 3.6 3.6  
Total, all trade groups 90.0 93.1 93.2 93.3 1.0 1.0 1.1 1.1  
                 
Regions                  
Newfoundland and Labrador 88.0 90.8 93.7 92.3 2.6 2.8 3.0 2.8  
Prince Edward Island 89.1 90.0 91.0 91.0 1.9 1.8 2.2 3.0  
Nova Scotia 90.9 94.1 92.7 94.8 9.5 2.0 6.1 8.1  
New Brunswick 94.3 96.4 95.5 94.7 2.3 2.4 2.4 3.6  
Quebec 88.4 92.5 92.4 92.5 3.0 2.9 3.1 3.0  
Ontario 90.9 94.3 94.4 94.0 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.4  
Manitoba 88.9 90.9 91.7 92.9 3.8 2.6 2.5 2.6  
Saskatchewan 88.7 88.5 89.9 88.0 6.8 5.3 5.0 4.8  
Alberta 89.7 91.9 92.0 93.7 2.8 2.9 3.2 2.9  
British Columbia 89.2 90.7 91.3 92.2 3.8 4.1 4.3 3.7  
Yukon 88.2 82.3 74.2 85.8 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.4  
Northwest Territories 84.8 85.0 81.1 91.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0  
Nunavut 54.3 98.8 99.0 97.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0  
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