Table Data - Brave-Butters-Kelley Cycle: Lagging Subcomponent of GDP

Title Brave-Butters-Kelley Cycle: Lagging Subcomponent of GDP
Series ID BBKQCLA
Source Indiana University: Indiana Business Research Center
Release Brave-Butters-Kelley Indexes
Seasonal Adjustment Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency Quarterly
Units Annualized Percent Change from Preceding Period
Date Range 1960-01-01 to 2026-04-01
Last Updated 2026-10-05 7:33 AM CDT
Notes The Brave-Butters-Kelley Indexes (BBKI) are the byproduct of research originally conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Currently, the BBKI are maintained and produced by the Indiana Business Research Center at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. The BBK Coincident and Leading Indexes and Monthly GDP Growth for the U.S. are constructed from a collapsed dynamic factor analysis of a panel of 490 monthly measures of real economic activity and quarterly real GDP growth.

The lagging subcomponent of the cycle expressed in annualized real GDP growth equivalent units. The cycle component is the sum of the leading and lagging subcomponents.

This quarterly series is aggregated from the monthly version of the series (BBKMCLA), using the triangle average described in Brave, Butters, and Kelley (2019) to approximate quarterly annualized (log) percent changes from the monthly series.

For more details, see also:
Brave, Scott A., Ross Cole, and David Kelley, 2019, A 'big data' view of the U.S. economy: Introducing the Brave-Butters-Kelley Indexes, Chicago Fed Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, No. 422. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.21033/cfl-2019-422
Brave, Scott A., R. Andrew Butters, and David Kelley, 2019, A new 'big data' index of U.S. economic activity, Economic Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Vol. 43, No. 1. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.21033/ep-2019-1
DATE VALUE
1960-01-01 1.5070939869
1960-04-01 -4.4022475131
1960-07-01 -4.1482789685
1960-10-01 -5.0734113340
1961-01-01 -3.7276481817
1961-04-01 3.0137988300
1961-07-01 4.0998682937
1961-10-01 4.0883266888
1962-01-01 2.0412547094
1962-04-01 0.6019203588
1962-07-01 -0.1364019951
1962-10-01 -0.1152987027
1963-01-01 1.0198652718
1963-04-01 2.5441340449
1963-07-01 0.7462314307
1963-10-01 1.2947644745
1964-01-01 1.4293913355
1964-04-01 1.8423127894
1964-07-01 1.4643779603
1964-10-01 1.5257469392
1965-01-01 3.6513340873
1965-04-01 2.1676738632
1965-07-01 1.5377653350
1965-10-01 2.2718878580
1966-01-01 3.8949126817
1966-04-01 1.5310627743
1966-07-01 0.6416437305
1966-10-01 -0.7959177734
1967-01-01 -2.9652627052
1967-04-01 -2.4614692266
1967-07-01 -0.4309358272
1967-10-01 1.8984765976
1968-01-01 0.9769765960
1968-04-01 0.5163552176
1968-07-01 -0.0319713460
1968-10-01 1.2026324816
1969-01-01 0.8086710831
1969-04-01 0.5398250719
1969-07-01 0.1730100028
1969-10-01 -1.5233880623
1970-01-01 -4.1099041725
1970-04-01 -2.9941357566
1970-07-01 -2.2650020895
1970-10-01 -4.3783462345
1971-01-01 1.2416000112
1971-04-01 0.6200607346
1971-07-01 -0.0083262241
1971-10-01 1.8393661859
1972-01-01 3.3612404949
1972-04-01 2.0353054336
1972-07-01 1.6280985770
1972-10-01 4.7889859747
1973-01-01 4.7766910384
1973-04-01 1.7576793874
1973-07-01 1.0481827395
1973-10-01 2.7199670949
1974-01-01 -0.1626586382
1974-04-01 -0.7734712822
1974-07-01 -2.0138727540
1974-10-01 -7.2458900330
1975-01-01 -11.4706629568
1975-04-01 -4.1573859788
1975-07-01 2.5050041215
1975-10-01 2.0983073370
1976-01-01 3.5556508662
1976-04-01 1.4835637497
1976-07-01 0.9999188661
1976-10-01 1.1996162444
1977-01-01 2.9302481163
1977-04-01 3.6447125679
1977-07-01 1.3480454102
1977-10-01 0.8177002995
1978-01-01 -0.1172730247
1978-04-01 4.8396901627
1978-07-01 1.4769512052
1978-10-01 2.4259569835
1979-01-01 0.7751308808
1979-04-01 0.7367431051
1979-07-01 -0.0956284800
1979-10-01 -0.3153021637
1980-01-01 -0.7948400902
1980-04-01 -8.4099062528
1980-07-01 -3.1281822634
1980-10-01 4.3696743807
1981-01-01 0.1069620916
1981-04-01 -0.6656796679
1981-07-01 -1.0933928166
1981-10-01 -5.8531451264
1982-01-01 -5.3159034851
1982-04-01 -3.2611676639
1982-07-01 -3.9339008750
1982-10-01 -4.5029960008
1983-01-01 1.0186149035
1983-04-01 3.6883834726
1983-07-01 4.8516785357
1983-10-01 4.5005254946
1984-01-01 4.0551894604
1984-04-01 1.8600697638
1984-07-01 0.1630556399
1984-10-01 -0.2225796979
1985-01-01 -0.5713523435
1985-04-01 -0.5981855337
1985-07-01 -0.8931422491
1985-10-01 0.0286024299
1986-01-01 -0.1713761942
1986-04-01 -1.2775161238
1986-07-01 0.2734795072
1986-10-01 0.5212965206
1987-01-01 1.4113663493
1987-04-01 1.9656646919
1987-07-01 2.4920173477
1987-10-01 2.4640618057
1988-01-01 1.0513569378
1988-04-01 1.4900870137
1988-07-01 0.6343683833
1988-10-01 1.2565311723
1989-01-01 0.6333443100
1989-04-01 -0.5997824598
1989-07-01 -1.8869615545
1989-10-01 -0.8034281130
1990-01-01 0.9127240994
1990-04-01 -0.3470239869
1990-07-01 -0.6583038287
1990-10-01 -3.2027834733
1991-01-01 -4.7486728712
1991-04-01 -0.9576289360
1991-07-01 1.0950512338
1991-10-01 -0.4731101047
1992-01-01 -0.5841849213
1992-04-01 1.7018663741
1992-07-01 0.5197732164
1992-10-01 0.7219654184
1993-01-01 1.0294641761
1993-04-01 0.2299662308
1993-07-01 -0.1642840191
1993-10-01 1.5517441038
1994-01-01 1.5179888217
1994-04-01 2.8032751793
1994-07-01 2.2691479229
1994-10-01 2.7833396393
1995-01-01 1.3249439551
1995-04-01 -0.6571846742
1995-07-01 0.0859015834
1995-10-01 0.3554304520
1996-01-01 -0.4293545677
1996-04-01 1.6524451734
1996-07-01 1.0500072467
1996-10-01 1.1174322826
1997-01-01 1.4401883220
1997-04-01 1.4246625791
1997-07-01 1.7358692111
1997-10-01 1.3521213747
1998-01-01 0.2950327970
1998-04-01 -0.4629555841
1998-07-01 -0.4124518095
1998-10-01 0.3773667471
1999-01-01 0.2167294226
1999-04-01 0.6783058821
1999-07-01 1.0522574740
1999-10-01 1.7938131967
2000-01-01 1.0375759379
2000-04-01 1.0431146651
2000-07-01 -0.4788672956
2000-10-01 -1.3875094118
2001-01-01 -3.0444956331
2001-04-01 -4.2835055975
2001-07-01 -4.3478567968
2001-10-01 -4.4366353783
2002-01-01 -1.8928554278
2002-04-01 0.4410788362
2002-07-01 -0.8964892728
2002-10-01 -1.6091657816
2003-01-01 -0.7979080217
2003-04-01 -1.6006745860
2003-07-01 0.5065330200
2003-10-01 1.7620554379
2004-01-01 1.9571476218
2004-04-01 2.3079280820
2004-07-01 1.9931291205
2004-10-01 2.2586930531
2005-01-01 2.2444723386
2005-04-01 1.2374950951
2005-07-01 0.8761781902
2005-10-01 2.2897145916
2006-01-01 1.6922455856
2006-04-01 1.0120456918
2006-07-01 0.2676580661
2006-10-01 -0.5336946202
2007-01-01 0.3959438981
2007-04-01 0.8142265140
2007-07-01 0.0071150149
2007-10-01 -0.1956400238
2008-01-01 -2.2822445357
2008-04-01 -3.1308512292
2008-07-01 -5.0372638727
2008-10-01 -10.5390666445
2009-01-01 -11.9175280206
2009-04-01 -7.1247108426
2009-07-01 -1.2310189060
2009-10-01 0.2036248725
2010-01-01 0.5572890473
2010-04-01 1.7227415973
2010-07-01 0.5535072071
2010-10-01 0.6279988086
2011-01-01 1.8057533013
2011-04-01 0.8750057112
2011-07-01 0.2629907949
2011-10-01 0.0752731622
2012-01-01 1.0223705586
2012-04-01 0.0571219619
2012-07-01 -1.2908173997
2012-10-01 -0.6383293095
2013-01-01 0.2417132940
2013-04-01 -0.4305402114
2013-07-01 0.0649542497
2013-10-01 0.6103144666
2014-01-01 0.0239915224
2014-04-01 1.2537793233
2014-07-01 0.7809592261
2014-10-01 0.1772935442
2015-01-01 -0.7758473273
2015-04-01 -0.6977385084
2015-07-01 -0.6039242656
2015-10-01 -1.8221822816
2016-01-01 -1.7060877446
2016-04-01 -1.1414753864
2016-07-01 -0.8921918217
2016-10-01 -0.4564835584
2017-01-01 0.7074222152
2017-04-01 1.0120406501
2017-07-01 0.7824390873
2017-10-01 2.4040731758
2018-01-01 2.1256271246
2018-04-01 2.1200382197
2018-07-01 1.5454623894
2018-10-01 0.5529986133
2019-01-01 -0.9806994306
2019-04-01 -1.1307576207
2019-07-01 -1.3021094629
2019-10-01 -1.8333218329
2020-01-01 -2.6202807439
2020-04-01 -14.9663110472
2020-07-01 6.7032062211
2020-10-01 2.8788192032
2021-01-01 2.1235192250
2021-04-01 3.6443672223
2021-07-01 2.6742120150
2021-10-01 3.1513767399
2022-01-01 1.9999180216
2022-04-01 0.9241114605
2022-07-01 -0.6733895761
2022-10-01 -1.8788035136
2023-01-01 -2.4298843334
2023-04-01 -2.5402327780
2023-07-01 -1.5377425686
2023-10-01 -1.8939063230
2024-01-01 -2.6487306881
2024-04-01 -1.7997951223
2024-07-01 -2.0773257776
2024-10-01 -1.8026657226
2025-01-01 -0.4751629159
2025-04-01 -1.8888178363
2025-07-01 -1.6560137070
2025-10-01 -1.8498992350
2026-01-01 0.2488225014
2026-04-01 0.7914774536

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