Table Data - Brave-Butters-Kelley Cycle Component of GDP

Title Brave-Butters-Kelley Cycle Component of GDP
Series ID BBKQCY
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 7:34 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 cycle component of GDP is 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 (BBKMCY), 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:
ave, 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 2.2434726202
1960-04-01 -2.8217888017
1960-07-01 -3.0799603994
1960-10-01 -4.4071353541
1961-01-01 -3.1427770791
1961-04-01 2.9372370766
1961-07-01 3.5395272712
1961-10-01 4.0544938545
1962-01-01 2.3581893395
1962-04-01 1.2029582742
1962-07-01 0.3226100853
1962-10-01 0.1098647300
1963-01-01 1.0301945896
1963-04-01 2.7039035784
1963-07-01 1.2042648664
1963-10-01 1.7352868283
1964-01-01 2.0357015673
1964-04-01 2.4815186395
1964-07-01 1.8258285552
1964-10-01 1.4816186854
1965-01-01 3.8808889396
1965-04-01 2.9814532999
1965-07-01 2.8901845838
1965-10-01 3.6158906919
1966-01-01 4.1499207293
1966-04-01 1.4448895971
1966-07-01 0.7990444039
1966-10-01 0.0773640125
1967-01-01 -1.2972410232
1967-04-01 -0.9522138642
1967-07-01 0.4838546342
1967-10-01 2.3760465912
1968-01-01 1.9595400671
1968-04-01 1.7005503803
1968-07-01 0.7743057159
1968-10-01 1.4567952057
1969-01-01 1.0687607968
1969-04-01 0.4815768033
1969-07-01 -0.0133838230
1969-10-01 -1.5173931432
1970-01-01 -3.7749161265
1970-04-01 -2.3589949743
1970-07-01 -1.2824127299
1970-10-01 -3.5127173999
1971-01-01 2.0144129339
1971-04-01 1.1425832461
1971-07-01 0.1030052167
1971-10-01 1.8427002070
1972-01-01 3.9139030295
1972-04-01 2.5587262494
1972-07-01 1.8330475375
1972-10-01 4.6376766541
1973-01-01 4.1061346197
1973-04-01 0.5198772839
1973-07-01 -0.6486913289
1973-10-01 0.5544578578
1974-01-01 -2.1250485397
1974-04-01 -1.7693516403
1974-07-01 -2.5383348420
1974-10-01 -6.7694549502
1975-01-01 -9.6853362898
1975-04-01 -2.7740740632
1975-07-01 2.6846226856
1975-10-01 1.9778749054
1976-01-01 3.5930986131
1976-04-01 1.4266894764
1976-07-01 0.9402091233
1976-10-01 1.2214755436
1977-01-01 2.6135051818
1977-04-01 3.5649759429
1977-07-01 1.5891447287
1977-10-01 0.9181644897
1978-01-01 0.1794727200
1978-04-01 5.4821022477
1978-07-01 1.3797247349
1978-10-01 1.7570027795
1979-01-01 -0.5044867260
1979-04-01 -0.7816263704
1979-07-01 -1.1555366179
1979-10-01 -1.5948696995
1980-01-01 -2.3865378885
1980-04-01 -9.1463071165
1980-07-01 -2.8497700933
1980-10-01 3.9160069180
1981-01-01 -0.2766281641
1981-04-01 -1.2434631432
1981-07-01 -1.5467122824
1981-10-01 -5.6607405071
1982-01-01 -4.7520441156
1982-04-01 -2.8414113628
1982-07-01 -3.1717116930
1982-10-01 -3.1412275756
1983-01-01 1.7207300656
1983-04-01 3.8532066549
1983-07-01 4.6989506330
1983-10-01 4.2879422266
1984-01-01 4.1262349963
1984-04-01 2.3874788371
1984-07-01 0.6345854800
1984-10-01 0.3689315529
1985-01-01 0.1433727681
1985-04-01 0.1317285249
1985-07-01 -0.0346840828
1985-10-01 0.4152542682
1986-01-01 0.2599510348
1986-04-01 -0.8922597677
1986-07-01 0.1012767933
1986-10-01 0.0564084454
1987-01-01 0.5251812842
1987-04-01 1.0811109352
1987-07-01 1.6717572642
1987-10-01 1.7635369285
1988-01-01 0.6603044815
1988-04-01 1.1485437459
1988-07-01 0.3055200606
1988-10-01 1.0934392735
1989-01-01 0.3912108964
1989-04-01 -0.7327728527
1989-07-01 -1.4605660614
1989-10-01 -0.7993083970
1990-01-01 0.2922040951
1990-04-01 -1.3715105325
1990-07-01 -2.1385593519
1990-10-01 -4.5484654527
1991-01-01 -4.9774905015
1991-04-01 -1.0295239295
1991-07-01 0.2485257171
1991-10-01 -1.1776649304
1992-01-01 -0.7081423078
1992-04-01 1.3630373754
1992-07-01 0.1207395691
1992-10-01 0.3556250885
1993-01-01 0.2598210705
1993-04-01 -0.2162815557
1993-07-01 -0.0873553018
1993-10-01 1.6425100907
1994-01-01 1.1991620418
1994-04-01 1.9396925749
1994-07-01 1.1778476704
1994-10-01 1.7479901094
1995-01-01 0.3531577313
1995-04-01 -0.9689732242
1995-07-01 0.2632445735
1995-10-01 0.4547064609
1996-01-01 -0.2346665415
1996-04-01 1.7866632113
1996-07-01 0.9368902538
1996-10-01 0.8728114715
1997-01-01 1.3218801261
1997-04-01 1.6907674549
1997-07-01 2.2101079216
1997-10-01 1.7733991089
1998-01-01 1.0702284088
1998-04-01 0.6242852957
1998-07-01 0.5684990316
1998-10-01 1.2169166096
1999-01-01 0.6488801809
1999-04-01 0.7809590942
1999-07-01 1.0942422229
1999-10-01 1.8008402652
2000-01-01 1.0288905534
2000-04-01 0.9811272343
2000-07-01 -0.3895835085
2000-10-01 -1.0990822228
2001-01-01 -2.5994049790
2001-04-01 -3.3486047241
2001-07-01 -3.4228918689
2001-10-01 -3.2764412819
2002-01-01 -0.9346221991
2002-04-01 0.3669851736
2002-07-01 -1.0311475367
2002-10-01 -1.5241520677
2003-01-01 -0.7682691992
2003-04-01 -0.9656630458
2003-07-01 1.0792941605
2003-10-01 1.5970161565
2004-01-01 1.1147184884
2004-04-01 1.2960782156
2004-07-01 1.1181417721
2004-10-01 1.5194437158
2005-01-01 1.4749747778
2005-04-01 0.6369133469
2005-07-01 0.1325077189
2005-10-01 1.4445963473
2006-01-01 1.3468715016
2006-04-01 0.1344402421
2006-07-01 -0.5145072201
2006-10-01 -0.4009368621
2007-01-01 0.1410583974
2007-04-01 -0.0285600285
2007-07-01 -0.8787186386
2007-10-01 -1.0428815981
2008-01-01 -2.6328050409
2008-04-01 -3.1128835887
2008-07-01 -4.7542874501
2008-10-01 -9.0031146947
2009-01-01 -10.1860552355
2009-04-01 -6.0410493320
2009-07-01 -1.1310896609
2009-10-01 -0.3507132394
2010-01-01 -0.0735306994
2010-04-01 1.2022127629
2010-07-01 -0.1542901919
2010-10-01 -0.3449448111
2011-01-01 0.2142867308
2011-04-01 -0.4135729473
2011-07-01 -0.4998535157
2011-10-01 -0.2052353021
2012-01-01 0.9729372495
2012-04-01 -0.0738503463
2012-07-01 -1.3546229210
2012-10-01 -0.6977458792
2013-01-01 0.1362624306
2013-04-01 -0.3444769704
2013-07-01 0.0259442877
2013-10-01 0.2682323524
2014-01-01 -0.4754362947
2014-04-01 1.1427033666
2014-07-01 1.0734155148
2014-10-01 0.7285076846
2015-01-01 -0.2245135379
2015-04-01 -0.3492500067
2015-07-01 -0.2092912068
2015-10-01 -1.2949970378
2016-01-01 -1.1488391165
2016-04-01 -0.7586286638
2016-07-01 -0.5400283463
2016-10-01 -0.4056415295
2017-01-01 0.4897368078
2017-04-01 0.7249143869
2017-07-01 0.2299645063
2017-10-01 1.6268952540
2018-01-01 1.0463792540
2018-04-01 1.0290247033
2018-07-01 0.6144136235
2018-10-01 0.0696413442
2019-01-01 -0.6123716456
2019-04-01 -0.1532451245
2019-07-01 -0.2970995825
2019-10-01 -1.6950016600
2020-01-01 -4.8870622356
2020-04-01 -18.1441856894
2020-07-01 8.4905115044
2020-10-01 4.2420462861
2021-01-01 2.3043861760
2021-04-01 3.4089738629
2021-07-01 1.9553068233
2021-10-01 2.1145580656
2022-01-01 0.4430418477
2022-04-01 -0.4967413178
2022-07-01 -1.3027598670
2022-10-01 -1.6105212936
2023-01-01 -1.2339580110
2023-04-01 -1.1066367559
2023-07-01 -0.4194094336
2023-10-01 -0.8204023526
2024-01-01 -1.3714407583
2024-04-01 -0.7162677524
2024-07-01 -1.0018013152
2024-10-01 -0.9765757616
2025-01-01 -0.2412758160
2025-04-01 -1.4109927261
2025-07-01 -1.0156078770
2025-10-01 -1.8768400948
2026-01-01 -0.5687736878
2026-04-01 -0.1652450156

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