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FRB: DDP: IP/CU (G.17)
This feed provides information about industrial production and capacity utilization data from the Federal Reserve Board's G.17 release available through the Data Download Program (DDP).

  • Capacity Utilization Rates for October 2007 - February 2008 Updated
    Capacity utilization rates for October 2007 through February 2008 have been updated with the G.17 Statistical Release published on September 15, 2008. In April 2008, a six-month reporting window was instituted for the industrial production indexes in the G.17 Statistical Release; however, the capacity utilization rates inadvertently continued to be calculated for only a four-month window. Table 7A shows the revised rates for the affected months. The download program and the historical data files on the Federal Reserve Board's website have been updated with revised data.

  • G.17 Annual Revision
    The Federal Reserve Board plans to issue an annual revision to the index of industrial production (IP) and the related measures of capacity and capacity utilization around the end of March 2009.

  • G.17 Publication Dates for 2009
    The publication dates for 2009 are now available.

  • Bulletin article discusses the 2008 IP/CU Annual Revision
    August 11, 2008: A Federal Reserve Bulletin article, Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization: The 2008 Annual Revision (858 KB PDF) is now available online. The article reviews the 2008 annual revision to the index of industrial production (IP) and the related measures of capacity and capacity utilization. It discusses both the changes in estimation methods introduced in the revision and the revised estimates of IP, capacity, and capacity utilization.

  • G.17 Change in Reporting Window
    April 1, 2008: Beginning with the release of March 2008 data in the Federal Reserve's monthly G.17 Statistical Release, monthly releases will be based on a six-month reporting window: One month of new data will be reported, and the previous five months of data will be revised. For example, the monthly release to be issued on April 16, 2008 will include new data for March and revised data for October 2007 through February 2008. Previously, the monthly releases were issued with a four-month reporting window, which covered one month of new data and revisions to the previous three months of data.


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