Figures are percent of firms (%) who responded with "uncertain" or "don't know" to six key questions about expectations over the next six months regarding credit conditions, the economy, real sales volume, planned inventory, expanding the business, and capital expenditures; the series is seasonally adjusted (SA). It starts at January 1986.
The series resides in the historical catalog (United States » Cyclical Indicators » Small Business Optimism Index (NFIB)) and is:
- SBIUN.IUSA = Uncertainty, (%, SA)
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