Margin when only have employment numbers?

In the retail sectors, when I enter industry sales it gives me the option of applying margins or not. When I only have employment data to enter in these sectors it does not give me the option and the sales are not margined. Should they be?
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  • Hi Ben. Thank you for your post. Yes this should be and the Software is doing exactly what it is suppose to do. When the Industry Sales value is entered the Software assumes this is in Purchaser prices. The Software then converts this into Producer Prices by margining. However when any of the other three Input fields (Employment, Proprietor Income, Employee Compensation) are used the entered value is by definition already a Producer value. These values are already margined, in effect, because you are looking only at the retailers operational costs equivalent to Gross Retail Margin.
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