Top 20 Menstrual Product Sales from a Retailer, 2006-2015

Victoria Sivill published a dataset listing the top 20 menstrual products sold by an unnamed retailer. The products cover 35% of the retailer's total menstrual product sales between 30 April 2006 and 16 April 2015. The data is available as a 9.5 KB Excel file on figshare.

Use Cases

• Analyze market share concentration based on the top 20 products covering 35% of sales.
• Compare sales performance of sanitary towels versus tampons over a nine-year period.
• Model product lifecycle and popularity trends from 2006 to 2015.

Strengths

• Covers a specific nine-year time range from 2006 to 2015.
• Focuses on the top 20 products representing a significant 35% of total category sales.
• Data is provided in a structured Excel format.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

Victoria Sivill via figshare.

Collection Method

Likely aggregated from retailer sales data.

Time Range

30 April 2006 to 16 April 2015.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 17:21:22; freshness should be verified.