For the past 30 years, Kingsbury International, Ltd. provided consulting services in business and economic development to help businesses develop profitable growth and governments to support business development.  During this time, Dr. Bishop supported the operation and development of the ISM-Chicago Business Survey Committee.

ISM-Chicago Business Survey | "Chicago PMI"

The ISM-Chicago Business Survey provides a proven ‘first look’ at business, government and NGO economic activity in the USA. Released monthly, generally on the last working day, the ISM-Chicago Business Survey characterizes expanding or contracting USA economic activity.

The survey panel is focused on Purchasing / Supply professionals, primarily drawn from the membership of the Institute for Supply Management - Chicago. The survey of Business Activities and Business Policy includes global non-manufacturing as well as manufacturing activities of the responding companies.

The ISM-Chicago Monthly Business Survey consists of seven Business Activity series (+, same, –; raw and seasonally adjusted indexes):

• Production
• New Orders
• Order Backlog
• Employment
• Inventories
• Prices Paid
• Supplier Deliveries

Since the early 70’s, the Buying Policy series provide a monthly measure of lead times for three major categories of products. Average days required to source Production Materiels, MRO Supplies, and Capital Equipment provide unique insight into economic activity:

• Production Materiels
• MRO Supplies
• Capital Equipment

Each series represents the level of activity (for the proportion of the survey responding) compared to the prior month. As such, this survey provides measure of the pervasiveness of changes in economic activity, but does not provide an estimate of the magnitude of either advances or declines. The composite Business Barometer provides an overall gauge of business activity.

The Chicago Business Barometer^tm is computed from five weighted raw indexes (see series and weights below) and then seasonally adjusted to support month-to-month comparisons:

Survey Results Released
     to the Public 8:45amCT

2008

31 July (Thursday)
29 August (Friday)
30 September (Tuesday)

31 October (Friday)
26 November (Wednesday)
30 December (Tuesday)

2009

30 January (Friday)
27 February (Friday)
31 March (Tuesday)

30 April (Thursday)
29 May (Friday)
30 June (Tuesday)

31 July (Friday)
31 August (Monday)
30 September (Wednesday)

30 October (Friday)
30 November (Monday)
30 December (Wednesday)