Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Survey: Delivery times: 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 delivery times was 7.0 (share of CEOs seeing a future increase minus share forecasting a decrease) in January 2026, compared to 6.0 in December 2025.
Sample. In the monthly time series plotted above, there are 295 data points in total. The time period covered by the series goes from July 2001 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few simple statistics computed on the whole sample: the diffusion index had an average value of 7.1; it recorded its highest level of 49.0 in March 2022; it hit a trough of -14.0 in June 2023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Percentage points |
|---|---|
| 2025-11-30 | 2.0 |
| 2025-12-31 | 6.0 |
| 2026-01-01 | 7.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Diffusion index for the question: Will delivery times 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: Delivery times |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LM01 |
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