Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Survey: Inventories of finished goods: Current (increase vs decrease; diffusion index; percentage points; seasonally adjusted) - United States - Kansas City Fed - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Survey
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to recent survey data about manufacturing firms in the Tenth Federal Reserve District, the seasonally adjusted diffusion index for inventories of finished goods stood at 3.0 (share of CEOs seeing a recent increase minus share reporting a decrease) in December 2025, as in the previous month.
Sample. In this monthly time series, there are 294 observations. The period covered by the series stretches from July 2001 to December 2025.
History. Check out a few simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: the diffusion index hit a maximum of 20.0 in October 2017; it recorded a minimum of -20.0 in February 2009; it had a mean value of 0.0.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Percentage points |
|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | 1.0 |
| 2025-11-30 | 3.0 |
| 2025-12-31 | 3.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Diffusion index for the question: Did inventories of finished goods 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 | Yes |
| 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 | Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City |
| Source type | Central bank |
| Data licence | Reproduction allowed subject to conditions |
| Other information | FS correspondence: Inventories of finished goods |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LM01 |
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