ISM fetcher

• name: Institute for Supply Management
• website url: https://www.ismworld.org

This fetcher handles monthly ISM Report On Business found on this page.
Only latest report is displayed on DBnomics.

Among these reports, fetcher only process:

• Manufacturing PMI (pmi)
• Services PMI as Non-Manufacturing NMI (nmi), its former name

Install

Using a virtual environment

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
pip install -r requirements.txt

Source data and granularity

• report data is displayed as an HTML page, so source-data only contains html files
• a report declares many business indicators (New orders, Production, Employment, ...)
• each business indicator
  • is treated as a dataset
    • dataset names can be common to different report, prefix Manufacturing or Non-Manufacturing is used to differentiate them
    • dataset codes are forged from dataset names, Non-Manufacturing dataset codes are prefixed with nm-
  • can have values spread over 1 or more HTML tables
  • can contain many time series (% Higher, % Same, % Lower, ...) defined in table columns