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Table 7. Wholesale Merchants Sample Response Fraction and Coefficient of Variation for Inventories

  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 80.5 84.5 83.7 83.5 6.8 6.7 6.8 6.7  
Beverage, drug and tobacco products 94.9 94.8 95.3 94.2 3.9 4.2 4.1 4.4  
Apparel and dry goods 67.6 69.9 70.1 73.6 6.5 6.4 6.5 6.6  
Household goods 89.1 87.3 85.8 85.9 7.5 6.9 6.6 6.3  
Motor vehicles, parts and accessories 91.2 94.4 90.7 90.9 6.7 6.8 6.7 6.9  
Metals, hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies 83.5 87.6 85.3 85.2 5.4 5.1 4.8 5.1  
Lumber and building materials 75.7 79.8 79.3 80.4 6.5 6.7 6.9 6.5  
Farm machinery, equipment and supplies 71.6 74.4 72.4 72.8 6.7 6.5 6.6 6.9  
Industrial and other machinery, equipment and supplies 73.0 79.4 79.3 78.4 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0  
Computers, packaged software and other electronic machinery 68.1 75.8 69.4 70.5 8.5 8.3 8.2 8.2  
Other products 74.0 75.8 77.7 78.2 5.2 5.2 5.4 5.3  
Total, all trade groups 79.5 83.2 82.2 82.1 1.9 1.9 1.9 1.9  
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