ISM-Chicago Business Survey | “Chicago PMI”
The ISM-Chicago Business Survey is a proven monthly ‘first look’ at business, government and NGO economic activity in the USA.
Released on the last working day of each month, the ISM-Chicago Business Survey reports the extent of expanding or contracting economic activity.
Based on a panel drawn from the membership of the Institute for Supply Management - Chicago (ISM-Chicago), the survey includes data from global business activities of the responding companies.
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What’s In the Report(Note: release dates at bottom of page)
 The CHICAGO Report:
The monthly report of key indicators of USA economic activities
- Raw and Seasonally Adjusted Data:
eleven economic indicators
- Individual graphs:
gray bars indicate recessions
- Arrows:
direction of 3 month moving averages
- From the Source (an occasional feature):
selected comments from members of the survey panel
- Statistical Summary:
last year
2000 - last year
1970 - last year
Your subscription gives you access to this market-moving data 3 minutes before public release.
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Survey methodology
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 Barometertm is computed from five weighted raw indexes (see series and weights below) and then seasonally adjusted to support month-to-month comparisons:
- Production
- New Orders
- Order Backlog
- Employment
- Supplier Deliveries
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0.25
0.35
0.15
0.10
0.15 |
Survey Results Released to the Public
8:45am Central Time, USA.
2010
26 February (Friday)
31 March (Wednesday)
30 April (Friday)
28 May (Friday)
30 June (Wednesday)
30 July (Friday)
31 August (Tuesday)
30 September (Thursday)
29 October (Friday)
30 November (Tuesday)
30 December (Thursday) |
