Monitoring the Economy: Survey of Fourth District Manufacturers
介绍了克利夫兰联邦储备银行自1965年起对第四联邦储备区制造业企业进行的月度调查，分析了由此得出的指数在近十年间的周期特征和统计表现，有助于理解区域制造业活动与经济周期的关系。
Monitoring changes in regional manufacturing activity is one means of analyzing current business-cycle conditions. Since 1965, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland has been surveying manufacturing firms within the Fourth Federal Reserve District on a monthly basis to ascertain basic conditions of production activity. This article describes the survey and the cyclical properties of the indexes derived from the survey and provides a statistical analysis of the performance of the index over the last ten years.