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Table Data - Business Uncertainty: Employment Growth Index (DISCONTINUED)

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Title Business Uncertainty: Employment Growth Index (DISCONTINUED)
Series ID ATLSBUEGUI
Source Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Release Survey of Business Uncertainty
Seasonal Adjustment Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency Monthly
Units Index
Date Range 2015-01-01 to 2020-07-01
Last Updated 2020-07-29 10:01 AM CDT
Notes This series was discontinued by the source following revisions to the methodology and panel design for the Survey of Business Uncertainty. For more details, see the revised methodology.

This index reflects firms' uncertainty about the growth of their own employment over the next 12 months. The index can respond to news about the overall economy, changes in business sentiment, policy developments, stock market moves, interest rate changes, and changes in the outlook of firms in the sample. The uncertainty index captures uncertainty about the outlook for sample firms.

For more details about the index or the survey, visit the Survey of Business Uncertainty.
DATE VALUE
2015-01-01 119.35180
2015-02-01 117.08880
2015-03-01 119.89120
2015-04-01 119.89120
2015-05-01 117.20900
2015-06-01 117.77880
2015-07-01 116.10660
2015-08-01 111.48040
2015-09-01 111.56800
2015-10-01 109.98410
2015-11-01 110.32840
2015-12-01 105.52360
2016-01-01 105.52360
2016-02-01 107.75260
2016-03-01 103.44070
2016-04-01 102.04200
2016-05-01 105.20510
2016-06-01 98.64024
2016-07-01 102.70390
2016-08-01 102.13740
2016-09-01 100.43300
2016-10-01 100.60070
2016-11-01 95.68058
2016-12-01 92.49881
2017-01-01 92.24885
2017-02-01 92.08672
2017-03-01 94.39489
2017-04-01 96.82005
2017-05-01 96.21572
2017-06-01 93.80738
2017-07-01 92.00509
2017-08-01 91.74959
2017-09-01 92.00490
2017-10-01 91.69733
2017-11-01 92.53123
2017-12-01 91.48273
2018-01-01 91.60703
2018-02-01 88.86412
2018-03-01 91.71368
2018-04-01 89.01917
2018-05-01 91.29935
2018-06-01 87.50918
2018-07-01 90.81571
2018-08-01 91.10979
2018-09-01 93.36619
2018-10-01 91.20831
2018-11-01 92.07053
2018-12-01 91.51183
2019-01-01 90.22976
2019-02-01 87.02413
2019-03-01 85.49262
2019-04-01 88.59099
2019-05-01 92.34274
2019-06-01 94.39187
2019-07-01 92.30564
2019-08-01 90.24474
2019-09-01 89.19830
2019-10-01 91.27663
2019-11-01 93.44428
2019-12-01 95.16804
2020-01-01 93.61899
2020-02-01 93.49876
2020-03-01 94.36415
2020-04-01 107.29200
2020-05-01 118.21570
2020-06-01 122.24670
2020-07-01 115.76840

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