G17: G.17 Annual Revision Released

Published on May 28, 2021

The Federal Reserve has revised its index of industrial production (IP) and the related measures of capacity and capacity utilization. The most prominent features of the revision are an update of the base year to 2017 for the indexes, a conversion of the industry-group indexes to the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), the incorporation of comprehensive annual production data for 2017 through 2019, and the incorporation of new survey utilization rate data for 2019 and 2020. The revision shows slower manufacturing IP growth and somewhat higher utilization rates in recent years.

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G17: G.17 Annual Revision Planned to be Released May 28, 2021

May 14, 2021
The Federal Reserve Board plans to issue its annual revision to the indexes of industrial production (IP) and the related measures of capacity utilization at noon (EDT) on May 28, 2021. The base year for the revised indexes will be 2017. New annual benchmark data for manufacturing for 2017 through 2019 will be incorporated, as well as other annual data, including information on the mining of metal

Z1: Next Z.1 release date is Thursday June 10, 2021; at 12:00 noon

June 4, 2021
A preview of changes to the upcoming Financial Accounts of the United States (Z.1) release is now available from the current Z.1 release page at www.federalreserve.gov/releases/Z1/Current/default.htm. The next release is scheduled for June 10, 2021. Preview content includes: a PDF document, HTML tables, and set of compressed CSV data files with corresponding data dictionary text files. Preliminary