Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization - G.17

Historical Data: DDP and Text Files

NOTE: The Federal Reserve discontinued its survey of industrial electric power use with the publication on December 15, 2005, of data for October 2005. Although the indexes of electric power use will no longer be updated, the historical indexes will remain available.

Data Download Program (DDP)

The Data Download Program allows you to retrieve data related to selected Federal Reserve Boad statistical releases, including the G.17. You may build your own custom data package or select a preformatted package. The Data Download Program allows for charting of selected data as well as downloading data in serveral different formats (i.e. Excel, CSV, XML (SDMX)).

Text Data Files

The files containing data from 1986 to present are updated each month as part of the G.17 release process.

The historical data, grouped by the table in which they appear in the G.17 release, are available in text files.

The format for each line in the files consists of an industry code, a year, and 12 months of data (to four decimal places) when available. The data have various start dates; the earliest is 1919.

Documentation for importing data into Microsoft Excel.

The data and the documentation files are available through the following links. (Tables 4 and 5 are indexes of series found in tables 1 and 2. Data and documentation for table 10 are available through the links for tables 1 and 2. Tables 11, 12, 13, and 14 of the release report a limited range of historical data for major aggregates found in other tables. These tables are, therefore, not reported here.)

  • Tables 1, 2 and 10: Industrial Production: Market and Industry Groups (including IP series from tables 1, 2, and tables 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, and 1E of the G.17 Supplement; also includes gross-value-weighted industrial production for stage-of-process groups found in table 10)
  • Table 3: Motor Vehicle Assemblies
  • Table 6: Diffusion Indexes of Industrial Production
  • Tables 7 and 8: Capacity Utilization and Industrial Capacity: Manufacturing, Mining, and Utilities (includes series from tables 7, 8, and tables 2, 3 of the G.17 Supplement)
  • Table 9: Industrial Production: Gross Value of Products
  • All Tables: Tables 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, and 9
  • Relative Importance Weights for Seasonally Adjusted IP.
  • Discontinued Data: Electric Power Use: Manufacturing and Mining

Related Data

A separate set of data and documentation show the seasonally adjusted aggregate initial estimate of the Industrial Production index as it was originally published and subsequently revised during the normal four-month estimation period as was the practice up through March 2008.

  • March 30, 2012: Seasonal factors for auto and truck production Seasonal factors for auto and truck production have been reestimated using final production data through February 2012 and manufacturers' assembly plans through June 2012; they also reflect the holiday schedule in place from the new domestic autoworkers' agreement signed in the 3rd quarter of 2011. Factors have been revised back to January 2007 and extended through December 2012. A comma-delimited text file containing these seasonal factors is available for download.

    Historical release dates are also available.



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  • Last update: March 30, 2012