Dates for consumer spending data are reported based on the start of the retail sales reporting week, which starts on Sunday. Consumer spending data corresponds to changes in weekly transactional dollar volume. In-store transactions are represented by ‘card present' transactions recorded by Moneris. In-store transactions that are recorded as ‘card not present' transactions are not included. Only Moneris-acquired credit and debit transaction data are included. Moneris indexed volumes use chained indexing; merchants are counted if they are active in consecutive weeks.