Economic indicator
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An economic indicator is a statistic about an economic activity. Economic indicators allow analysis of economic performance and predictions of future performance. One application of economic indicators is the study of business cycles. Economic indicators include various indices, earnings reports, and economic summaries: for example, the unemployment rate, quits rate (quit rate in U.S. English), housing starts, consumer price index (a measure for inflation), consumer leverage ratio, industrial production, bankruptcies, gross domestic product, broadband internet penetration, retail sales, stock market prices, and money supply changes.
The leading business cycle dating committee in the United States of America is the private National Bureau of Economic Research. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the U.S. government in the field of labor economics and statistics. Other producers of economic indicators includes the United States Census Bureau and United States Bureau of Economic Analysis.
See also
- Big Mac Index
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- CAPRI model
- Consumer confidence index
- Consumer leverage ratio
- Consumer price index
- Core inflation
- Economic data
- Fundamental analysis
- Genuine Progress Index
- Gross domestic product
- Hemline index
- Inflation
- Lipstick effect
- List of economic reports by U.S. government agencies
- Misery index (economics)
- The Conference Board
