Vintages on screen

The short answer

Every release of DTG data is a complete, fixed, named version, such as DTG 2026.3. The Vintage pill in the selection bar shows the current one by default, and your workspace follows each new release unless you pick a vintage yourself. A released vintage never changes, so a figure recorded with its vintage can be retrieved later exactly as it was, for as long as that vintage is kept. Prior vintages can be selected on every paid plan; on Free they are shown marked Paid plans only.

Choosing a vintage

Open the Vintage pill. Each row shows the label and the date it was built, with “current” on the current one. Picking a prior vintage pins your workspace to it, and the menu says your workspace stays on that vintage until you switch; picking the current row again makes it follow new releases. When a new vintage is released, every seated member is notified, and a workspace pinned to an earlier one stays where it is. No release calendar is published.

Why values move between vintages

Preliminary quarters become final, BLS revises earlier periods, classifications are restated, early-year occupation patterns are re-derived, and projected periods become published ones. The current vintage and the two before it are kept; older ones are removed as new ones are released. A workspace pinned to a removed vintage says it can no longer be found and offers Use the current vintage. The vintage label is written into the preamble of every CSV, onto the Source sheet of every workbook, and into the metadata of every API response.

Related

Corrections to a released vintage are on corrections and wrong values. The full account is on the methodology’s vintages page; release dates and notes are on releases.