Tech Pulse Index
The Tech Pulse Index is an index of coincident indicators of activity in the U.S. information technology sector. It can be interpreted as a summary statistic that tracks the health of the tech sector in a timely manner. The indicators used to compute the index are investment in IT goods, consumption of personal computers and software, employment in the IT sector, as well as industrial production of and shipments by the technology sector. The index extracts the common trend that drives these series.
- 2000s
- October 2003
- November 2003
- December 2003
- January 2004
- February 2004
- March 2004
- April 2004
- May 2004
- June 2004
- July 2004
- August 2004
- September 2004
- October 2004
- November 2004
- December 2004
- January 2005
- February 2005
- March 2005
- April 2005
- May 2005
- June 2005
- July 2005
- August 2005
- September 2005
- October 2005
- November 2005
- December 2005
- January 2006
- February 2006
- March 2006
- April 2006
- May 2006
- June 2006
- July 2006
- August 2006
- September 2006
- October 2006
- November 2006
- December 2006
- January 2007
- February 2007
- March 2007
- April 2007
- May 2007
- June 2007
- July 2007
- August 2007
- September 2007
- October 2007
- November 2007
- December 2007
- January 2008
- February 2008
- March 2008
- April 2008
- May 2008
- June 2008
- July 2008
- August 2008
- Tech Pulse Index : Sources and Methodology
- December 10, 2008 (Beta)
- January 14, 2009
- February 11, 2009
- March 11, 2009
- April 8, 2009
- May 13, 2009
- June 10, 2009
- July 8, 2009
- August 12, 2009
- September 9, 2009
- October 14, 2009
- November 10, 2009
- December 9, 2009
- 2010s
- 2020s
In order to aid in the retrieval of information from this publication, significant tables, charts, and/or articles have been extracted and can be viewed individually or across a span of issues.
This index, first constructed in 2003, aggregates information on production of and investment in IT capital, employment in the information sector, and several other time series. However, due to the shift to services in the IT sector, like cloud computing and the delivery of product on non-PC platforms, the indicators became much less representative of economic activity in the sector and the series was discontinued in 2020. The latest data (updated April 13, 2020) has been converted to a FRED graph at San Francisco Tech Pulse.
Supplemental material to data files has been provided in PDF format when available.
2003-2020
- The Tech Pulse Index: Recent Trends in Tech-Sector Activity, FRBSF Economic Letter 2009-03.
- Taking the Pulse of the Tech Sector: A Coincident Index of High-Tech Activity, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Current Issues in Economics and Finance 9 (10).
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
