Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Performance Evaluation of the Federal Reserve G.17 (419) Statistical Release
June 2020 PDF

Report Submitted to the Office of Management and Budget, pursuant to Statistical Policy Directive No.3 for the Federal Reserve G.17 (419) Statistical Release, Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization, a principal federal economic indicator, June 2020.

Table of Contents

• I. Overview
• II. Changes in Indexes since June 2017
  • II.A.  Incorporation of Quarterly Survey of Plant Capacity into Monthly Estimates for IP Indexes
    • Based on Production-Worker Hours
  • II.B. COVID-19 Effects on the IP Estimates
  • II.C. Other Changes to the Indexes
• III. Analysis of Revisions
  • III.A. Industrial Production
  • III.B. Capacity Utilization
• IV. Data Publication and Availability
  • IV.A. Description of the Statistical Release, G17 (419)
  • IV.B. G.17 Webpage
  • IV.C. Publication Statistics
  • IV.D. Release Schedule
  • IV.E. Inquiries about IP or Capacity Utilization
• V. Security of Data and Release Procedures<
  • V.A. Standard Security and Release Procedures
  • V.B. Off-Schedule Releases
• VI. Supplemental Information