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# Total Business Inventories
Monthly total business inventories from the US Census. Data retrieved from
[this direct
url](https://www.census.gov/mtis/www/data/text/mtis-inventory.txt) on
2019-09-11. We use the unadjusted time series to maintain the seasonal
component.
According to [this
page](https://web.archive.org/web/20191120160410/https://ask.census.gov/prweb/PRServletCustom/YACFBFye-rFIz_FoGtyvDRUGg1Uzu5Mn*/!STANDARD?pyActivity=pyMobileSnapStart&ArticleID=KCP-4726)
on the US Census website, we are allowed to redistribute the data as part of
this repository.
Source: United States Census Bureau, URL: https://www.census.gov, Retrieved:
2019-09-11.
To create the ``businv.json`` file from the raw ``mtis-inventory.txt`` file,
simply run:
```
$ python convert.py mtis-inventory.txt businv.json
```
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