Recent literature on real-time data analysis has shown that several economic activity measures go through important revisions over time, limiting the use of those measures. We organize a real-time data set for industrial production (IP) in Brazil and assess the revisions of the series of IP growth and gap. We find that the revisions of month-over-month growth, three-month moving average growth and IP gap are substantial.
Real-time data; Industrial production; Output gap; Business cycle; Brazil
