Average Fed Mfg Survey: New orders: Current (increase vs decrease; diffusion index; percentage points; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Average Fed Mfg Survey (FetchSeries Research)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. Based on an average of regional Federal Reserve manufacturing surveys, the seasonally unadjusted diffusion index for new orders was 16.6 (share of CEOs seeing a recent increase minus share reporting a decrease) in September 2026, compared to 15.6 in August.
Sample. There are 268 observations overall in the monthly series presented in the figure above. The period covered by the series goes from June 2004 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: the diffusion index registered a minimum of -56.0 in April 2020; it achieved a maximum of 39.2 in April 2021; it had an average value of 4.4.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Percentage points |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-31 | 11.8200 |
| 2026-08-31 | 15.5800 |
| 2026-09-30 | 16.6000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Diffusion index for the question: Did new orders increase or decrease in the past month? |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Business survey response |
| Data type | Coincident indicator of the business cycle |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Diffusion index (share of respondents reporting an increase minus share reporting a decrease) |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | Percentage points |
| Source | FetchSeries Research calculations on Federal Reserve data |
| Source type | Data research lab |
| Data licence | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) + FetchSeries disclaimers |
| Other information | Arithmetic average across 5 regional Federal Reserve manufacturing surveys |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LM01 |
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