Q. Indicators of activity in the U.S. information technology sector?

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco published Tech Plus.  The Tech Pulse Index was an index of coincident indicators of activity in the U.S. information technology sector. It could be interpreted as a summary statistic that tracks the health of the tech sector in a timely manner. The indicators used to compute the index are investment in IT goods, consumption of personal computers and software, employment in the IT sector, as well as industrial production of and shipments by the technology sector. The index extracted the common trend that drives these series. Discontinued in 2020.