Federal Reserve Economic Data

Table Data - Business Uncertainty Index (DISCONTINUED)

Title Business Uncertainty Index (DISCONTINUED)
Series ID ATLSBUBUI
Source Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Release Survey of Business Uncertainty
Seasonal Adjustment Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency Monthly
Units Index 2015-2018=100
Date Range 2015-01-01 to 2020-07-01
Last Updated 2020-07-29 10:01 AM CDT
Notes This series was discontinued by the source following revisions to the methodology and panel design for the Survey of Business Uncertainty. For more details, see the revised methodology.

This index reflects firms' uncertainty about the growth of their own sales, employment, and capital expenditures over the next 12 months. The index can respond to news about the overall economy, changes in business sentiment, policy developments, stock market moves, interest rate changes, and changes in the outlook of firms in the sample. The uncertainty index captures uncertainty about the outlook for sample firms. Each index is standardized to have mean and variance of 100 during the period from January 2015 to December 2018.

For more details about the index or the survey, visit the Survey of Business Uncertainty.
DATE VALUE
2015-01-01 125.99590
2015-02-01 121.28220
2015-03-01 121.40610
2015-04-01 118.93720
2015-05-01 114.61120
2015-06-01 112.19150
2015-07-01 107.87410
2015-08-01 111.92280
2015-09-01 111.09010
2015-10-01 107.61380
2015-11-01 105.51120
2015-12-01 100.20930
2016-01-01 97.97992
2016-02-01 99.60931
2016-03-01 98.93388
2016-04-01 98.19465
2016-05-01 88.77381
2016-06-01 85.19549
2016-07-01 89.12893
2016-08-01 89.68027
2016-09-01 96.70313
2016-10-01 103.16560
2016-11-01 107.50340
2016-12-01 101.14480
2017-01-01 97.60640
2017-02-01 98.42664
2017-03-01 96.74265
2017-04-01 99.10352
2017-05-01 88.68890
2017-06-01 92.32583
2017-07-01 86.16557
2017-08-01 102.73870
2017-09-01 98.07069
2017-10-01 99.68811
2017-11-01 86.22243
2017-12-01 92.23780
2018-01-01 96.22539
2018-02-01 96.15253
2018-03-01 91.03157
2018-04-01 90.19571
2018-05-01 89.40188
2018-06-01 90.77168
2018-07-01 91.61881
2018-08-01 93.74069
2018-09-01 95.58144
2018-10-01 99.34119
2018-11-01 102.15320
2018-12-01 111.11030
2019-01-01 100.41170
2019-02-01 98.20862
2019-03-01 80.59769
2019-04-01 96.87588
2019-05-01 92.74996
2019-06-01 105.38590
2019-07-01 92.28261
2019-08-01 98.07636
2019-09-01 92.61324
2019-10-01 93.87809
2019-11-01 99.63879
2019-12-01 113.05380
2020-01-01 113.52620
2020-02-01 113.72220
2020-03-01 138.14000
2020-04-01 225.84280
2020-05-01 279.10220
2020-06-01 305.35800
2020-07-01 271.22640

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