Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Survey: Inventories of finished goods: Future (increase vs decrease; diffusion index; percentage points; seasonally unadjusted) - 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 unadjusted diffusion index for inventories of finished goods stood at 3.0 (share of CEOs seeing a future increase minus share forecasting a decrease) in February 2026, compared to 7.0 in the previous month.
Sample. In this monthly series, there are 296 records in total. The time span covered by the series extends from July 2001 to February 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: the diffusion index recorded a minimum of -38.0 in February 2009; it recorded its maximum of 23.0 in February 2017; it had a mean of -1.7.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Percentage points |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 12.0 |
| 2026-01-31 | 7.0 |
| 2026-02-28 | 3.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Diffusion index for the question: Will inventories of finished goods increase or decrease over the next six months? |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Business survey response |
| Data type | Leading 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 | 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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