Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Industrial Production: Historical Bibliography and Other References

Articles in the Federal Reserve Bulletin and Related Revision Summary Articles:

Raddock, Richard D. "Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization: A Revision," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 81 (January 1995), pp. 16–26.

———. "Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization since 1990: A Revision," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 80 (March 1994), pp. 220–26.

———. "Industrial Production, Capacity, and Capacity Utilization since 1987," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 79 (June 1993), pp. 590–605.

———. "Recent Developments in Industrial Capacity and Utilization," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 76 (June 1990), pp. 411–35.

Armitage, Kenneth, and Dixon A. Tranum. "Industrial Production: 1989 Developments and Historical Revision," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 76 (April 1990), pp. 187–204.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Industrial Production: 1986 Edition, With a Description of the Methodology. Washington: Board of Governors, 1986.

• This 440 page book contains the revised historical data issued in the 1985 revision and tables that show the market and industry structures and list the 252 individual series, their sources, and weights. The extensive description of the index and the procedures used to compile it includes a history of its development, a glossary of terms, and a bibliography.

Hosley, Joan D., and James E. Kennedy. "A Revision of the Index of Industrial Production," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 71 (July 1985), pp. 487–501.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Industrial Production: 1976 Revision. Washington: Board of Governors, 1977.

———. Industrial Production: 1971 Edition. Washington: Board of Governors, 1972.

———. Industrial Production: 1957–59 Base. Washington: Board of Governors, 1962.

———. Industrial Production: 1959 Revision. Washington: Board of Governors, 1960.

———. "Industrial Production Index Revised" (1953), Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 39 (December 1953), pp. 1239–328.

———. Federal Reserve Index of Industrial Production: October 1943. Washington: Board of Governors, 1943.

Other References:

Bartelsman, Eric J. and William P. Cleveland. "Joint Seasonal Adjustment of Economic Time Series," Federal Reserve Board Finance and Economics Discussion Series. 1993–28 (August 1993).

• This paper introduces new multivariate seasonal adjustment methods. The methods are used to seasonally adjust the monthly industrial electric power data.

Barton, H.C., Jr. "Adjustment for Seasonal Variation," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 27 (June 1941), pp.518–28.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. "Industrial Production—1957–59 Base," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 48 (October 1962), pp. 1267–76.

———. Industrial Production Chartbook: August 1960. Washington: Board of Governors, 1960.

———. "Revised Industrial Production Index (1947–59)," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 45 (December 1959), pp. 1451–74.

———. "Census Benchmark Indexes of Manufacturing Production," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 44 (December 1958), pp.1368–88.

———. "Index of Electricity and Gas Output," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 42 (October 1956), pp. 1055–69.

———. "Annual Indexes of Production (1947–54)," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 41 (September 1955), pp. 981–82.

———. "New Indexes of Output of Consumer Durable Goods," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 40 (May 1954), pp.438–52.

———. "Industrial Production Index Revised (1947–53)," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 39 (December 1953), pp. 1239–328.

———. "Plans for Revision of Index of Industrial Production," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 37 (December 1951), pp. 1527–28.

• Includes reprint of 1947 benchmark release on November 10, 1951.

———. "New Index of Output of Major Consumer Durable Goods," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 37 (October 1951), pp. 1235–40.

———. "Revision of Industrial Production Index," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 29 (October 1943), pp. 940–84.

———. "Industrial Production Index under War Conditions," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 28 (July 1942), pp. 642–44.

———. "Revision in the Index of Industrial Production," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 27 (September 1941), pp. 878–81.

———. "The Rise in the Federal Reserve Index of Production," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 26 (October 1940), pp. 1047–49.

———. Federal Reserve Charts on Industrial Production. Washington: Board of Governors, 1940.

———. "New Federal Reserve Index of Industrial Production," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 26 (August 1940), pp. 753–71.

———. "The New Index of Industrial Production," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 13 (March 1927), pp. 170–77.

———. "A New Index of Industrial Production," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 13 (February 1927), pp. 100–03.

———. "Index of Production in Selected Basic Industries," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 8 (December 1922), pp. 1414–21.

———. "Indexes of Trade and Production" Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 8 (March 1922), pp. 292–96.

———, and Bureau of the Census. "New Benchmark Production Measures—1958 and 1963," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 53 (June 1967), pp. 954–57.

Fabricant, Solomon. The Output of Manufacturing Industries, 1899–1937, New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1940.

Garfield, Frank, R. "General Indexes of Business Activity," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 26 (June 1940), pp. 495–501.

Gehman, Clayton. "Alternative Measures of Economic Activity", in American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section, 1964. Washington: American Statistical Association, 1964, pp. 103–08.

———. "Measuring and Analyzing Economic Growth," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 49 (August 1963), pp. 1046–60.

———. "The Revised Index of Industrial Production: Reply," American Economic Review, vol. 52 (June 1962), pp. 513–22.

Kennedy, James. "An Analysis of Revisions to the Industrial Production Index," Applied Economics, vol. 25 (1993), pp. 213–19.

League of Nations. Indices of Industrial Production. Studies and Reports on Statistical Methods 6. Geneva: League of Nations, 1939.

Moss, Milton. "Industrial Activity and Productivity," in American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section, 1957. Washington: American Statistical Association, 1957, pp. 287–99.

———. "Monthly Production Indexes and Changes in Output per Manhour," in American Statistical Association Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section, 1955. Washington: American Statistical Association, 1955, p. 282.

Thomas, Woodlief. "Construction of an Index Number of Production," Journal of American Statistical Association, vol. 22 (September 1927), pp. 315–30.

———. and Maxwell R. Conklin. "Measurement of Production," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 26 (September 1940), pp. 912–23.

United Nations, Statistical Office. Index Numbers of Industrial Production. Studies in Methods 1. Lake Success, New York: United Nations, 1950.

U.S. Bureau of the Census. 1977 Census of Manufactures, Subject Series, Indexes of Production. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1983.

———. Census of Manufactures, 1972, Volume IV, Indexes of Production. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1977.

———. Censuses of Manufactures and Mineral Industries, 1967, Special Reports Series, Indexes of Production. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1973.

——— and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Census of Manufactures, 1963, Volume IV, Indexes of Production. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1968. Includes 1958 data.

——— and ———. Census of Manufactures, 1947, Indexes of Production. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1952.

——— and ——— and Bureau of Labor Statistics. Census of Manufactures, 1954, Indexes of Production. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1958.