FRED Production & Business Activity

Includes time series on:

• Industrial production and capacity utilization for manufacturing, mining, utilities and related sectors
• Construction activity, housing starts, building permits and other real-estate-related production measures
• Retail, wholesale and services sector sales, revenues, inventories and turnover
• Business expenditures, orders, shipments and sales across industries
• Business cycle expansions and contractions, plus business surveys and sentiment indicators
• Transportation activity, emissions and technology-related measures linked to production and business operations

Each dataset in this collection contains the public time series from one FRED top-level category
(e.g., Prices, National Accounts) together with their full observation histories.

Tables included:

• series: core series metadata (title, frequency, units, seasonal adjustment, notes, etc.).
• observations: values over time for each series.

Notes

• Values are provided both as the raw string from FRED (value_raw) and a parsed numeric (value).
• Missing values in FRED (“.”) are preserved in value_raw and set to NULL in value.
• Observation dates are stored as calendar dates.
• For provenance, each row links to its series_id. Series notes are included to help analysts.
• FRED Terms of Use apply to this dataset; see License link.

Disclaimer: This dataset uses the FRED® API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.