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S&P Global - Purchasing Managers’ Index

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An overview of S&P Global - Purchasing Managers’ Index

  • S&P Global Purchasing Managers’ Index™ (PMI™) surveys provide up-to-date, accurate, and unique monthly indicators of economic trends; and are the most closely-watched business surveys in the world.
  • The PMI data are based on monthly surveys of carefully selected companies and are collected using identical methods in all countries so that international comparisons may be made.
  • The surveys are now available for over 50 countries and for key regions including the Eurozone.

Key Facts 

  • Geographical coverage
    Global
  • History
    From 1950
  • Data format
    CSV
    Delimited
    GZIP
    HTML
    JSON
    PDF
    Python
    User Interface
    XML
    Zip Archive
  • Delivery mechanism
    API
    Desktop
    Excel
    FTP
    SFTP
    Website
  • Data frequency
    Monthly
    Quarterly

Features & Benefits

What you get with S&P Global - Purchasing Managers’ Index

  • The PMI surveys are based on facts, not opinion, and are among the first indicators of economic conditions published each month. Over 20,000 companies participate.
  • The surveys achieve considerable press coverage on a regular basis and are widely used by purchasing professionals in the manufacturing sector, by senior management across the corporate sector and by economic analysts in financial institutions - particularly central banks in many key economies use the data to help guide interest rate decisions.
  • Besides the main PMI numbers and sector series, PMI numbers for metals and electronics are also produced; and publishes a separate report on UK Jobs.
  • Flash estimates are released for a subset of the countries.

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