MFG Calcs Signals

How Broad Is Manufacturing Cost Pressure?

Name: MFG Calcs Input Cost Diffusion Index (ICDI)
Creator: MFG Calcs
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The Input Cost Diffusion Index (ICDI): how broad manufacturing input-cost increases are across a frozen basket of 16 series. Above 50, they are broad-based.

What this Signal shows

See how broad-based manufacturing input-cost increases are: the share of tracked cost inputs rising, as a diffusion index.

Cadence, source and downloads

Cadence: Refreshed automatically whenever the underlying series update.
Built from BLS and EIA public-domain series over a frozen constant basket. Breadth, not magnitude; pairs with the Cost Pressure Index. Full index at /signals/input-cost-diffusion.
Free to download as Diffusion history (CSV), Full index (JSON), Methodology (JSON) under CC BY 4.0.

Last reviewed 2026-10-01.