Research & Data

Business-Cycle Indexes

The Dallas Fed business-cycle indexes are published monthly a couple days after the state and metro employment and unemployment data become publicly available from the Texas Workforce Commission.

Texas Business-Cycle Index
An economic statistic that helps gauge the current state of the texas economy. The index is constructed using payroll employment, gross state product and the unemployment rate.

• Texas Business-Cycle Index
  

Metro Business-Cycle Indexes
These indexes show the broad movements in local Texas economies. They also summarize movements in nonagricultural employment, the unemployment rate, inflation-adjusted wages and inflation-adjusted retail sales.

• Austin-Round Rock (MSA)
• Brownsville-Harlingen (MSA)
• Dallas-Plano-Irving (Metropolitan Division)
• El Paso (MSA)
• Fort Worth-Arlington (Metropolitan Division)
• Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown (MSA)
• Laredo (MSA)
• McAllen-Edinburg-Mission (MSA)
• San Antonio (MSA)
• Historical table of nine major Texas metro business-cycle indexes