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
- 2010s
- February 10, 2010
- January 13, 2010
- March 10, 2010
- April 14, 2010
- May 12, 2010
- June 9, 2010
- July 14, 2010
- August 11, 2010
- September 8, 2010
- October 13, 2010
- November 10, 2010
- December 8, 2010
- January 12, 2011
- February 9, 2011
- March 9, 2011
- April 13, 2011
- May 11, 2011
- June 8, 2011
- July 13, 2011
- August 10, 2011
- September 14, 2011
- October 12, 2011
- November 9, 2011
- December 14, 2011
- January 11, 2012
- February 8, 2012
- March 14, 2012
- April 11, 2012
- May 9, 2012
- June 13, 2012
- July 11, 2012
- August 8, 2012
- September 14, 2012
- October 10, 2012
- November 14, 2012
- December 13, 2012
- January 9, 2013
- February 13, 2013
- March 13, 2013
- April 10, 2013
- May 8, 2013
- June 12, 2013
- July 10, 2013
- August 14, 2013
- September 11, 2013
- October 9, 2013
- November 12, 2014
- November 13, 2013
- December 11, 2013
- January 8, 2014
- January 14, 2015
- February 12, 2014
- March 12, 2014
- April 9, 2014
- May 14, 2014
- June 11, 2014
- July 9, 2014
- August 13, 2014
- September 10, 2014
- October 8, 2014
- December 10, 2014
- February 11, 2015
- March 11, 2015
- April 8, 2015
- May 13, 2015
- June 10, 2015
- July 8, 2015
- August 12, 2015
- September 9, 2015
- October 14, 2015
- November 12, 2015
- December 9, 2015
- January 13, 2016
- February 10, 2016
- March 9, 2016
- April 13, 2016
- May 11, 2016
- June 8, 2016
- July 13, 2016
- August 10, 2016
- September 14, 2016
- October 12, 2016
- November 9, 2016
- December 14, 2016
- January 11, 2017
- February 8, 2017
- March 15, 2017
- April 12, 2017
- May 10, 2017
- June 14, 2017
- July 12, 2017
- August 9, 2017
- September 13, 2017
- October 11, 2017
- November 8, 2017
- December 13, 2017
- January 10, 2018
- February 14, 2018
- March 14, 2018
- April 11, 2018
- May 9, 2018
- July 11, 2018
- June 13, 2018
- August 8, 2018
- September 12, 2018
- October 10, 2018
- November 14, 2018
- December 12, 2018
- January 9, 2019
- March 13, 2019
- April 10, 2019
- May 15, 2019
- June 12, 2019
- July 10, 2019
- August 14, 2019
- September 11, 2019
- October 9, 2019
- November 6, 2019
- December 11, 2019
- 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
