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Leading index in Alaska
2.0%
as of February 2020 · weekly · seasonally adjusted
▲ 1.3pt vs prior · ▲ 1.1pt vs a year earlier
Series leading_index.ak.sa
History since 1982
Range
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Recent values
| Date | Leading index |
|---|---|
| 2020-02-01 | 2.0% |
| 2020-01-01 | 0.7% |
| 2019-12-01 | 0.3% |
| 2019-11-01 | 0.5% |
| 2019-10-01 | 0.6% |
| 2019-09-01 | 0.7% |
| 2019-08-01 | 0.5% |
| 2019-07-01 | 0.7% |
| 2019-06-01 | 0.4% |
| 2019-05-01 | 0.1% |
| 2019-04-01 | 0.7% |
| 2019-03-01 | 0.8% |
| 2019-02-01 | 0.9% |
| 2019-01-01 | 0.9% |
| 2018-12-01 | 0.7% |
| 2018-11-01 | 1.0% |
| 2018-10-01 | 1.2% |
| 2018-09-01 | 1.0% |
| 2018-08-01 | 1.1% |
| 2018-07-01 | 1.1% |
| 2018-06-01 | 1.3% |
| 2018-05-01 | 1.1% |
| 2018-04-01 | 0.8% |
| 2018-03-01 | 1.3% |
About this data
A bundle of nine Alaska indicators ingested through the single FRED API rather than five separate source pipelines: weekly initial unemployment claims (the fastest labor-market signal in the state), the Philadelphia Fed coincident and leading indexes (one-number summaries of the AK economy), FHFA house price indexes for Alaska and Anchorage, the Realtor.com Anchorage housing-market trio (median listing price, days on market, active listings — the best high-frequency AK housing signals anywhere), and seasonally adjusted statewide housing permits. FRED is the aggregation layer; each series has a different originating agency.
Known issues & gotchas
- One endpoint, N calls:
GET https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/series/observations?series_id={ID}&api_key={KEY}&file_type=json— one request per series, loop over the nine IDs. Rate limit ~120 requests/min, far above our needs. Missing values arrive as the string ".", not null — filter before float-parsing. All values are strings in JSON. - Mixed frequencies in one dataset: weekly (claims), monthly (Realtor.com trio, permits, Philly Fed indexes), quarterly (both HPIs). The dataset-level
freshness_max_gap(P120D) is set to tolerate the quarterly series; a per-series freshness check oninitial_claims.ak.nsa(expect ≤ ~14-day gaps) is worth adding in the connector, since the dataset-level bound won't catch a stalled claims feed quickly. - FRED's mirror of AKICLAIMS appeared to lag the DOL ETA source by weeks-to-months in a research snapshot (2026-08); verify actual update cadence at build time — if the lag is real, the DOL ETA report (oui.doleta.gov / dol.gov weekly claims release) is the fallback for the latest weeks.
- Realtor.com series get restated when their methodology changes (has happened before) — full-history refetch every run, don't append-only. Same for