We update our database daily at about 6:30am EST. Data releases should appear in the Macrospect database the following day.
Some agencies may not update their source files at the same time that they issue their press releases; in those cases the data my take longer to appear in our database
We are working towards making our updates more timely.
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Seasonally Adjusted at Annual Rates.
This is a common method of comparing growth rates for quarterly or monthly data. Seasonal Adjustment adjusts for regular patterns in economic data that occur within a year in some types of economic activity. For example, many retail industries have large spikes in sales around Christmas.
Annualized rates refer to period-to-period growth rates calculated using the actual month-to-month or quarter-to-quarter growth rate, scaled up to be equivalent to the annual growth rate. For example, if car sales increased by 0.5% from one month to the next, the annualized growth rate would be that rate of growth for each of 12 months, i.e. (1+0.005)12 = 1.062, or 6.2%.
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The Basic and Free service levels give you limted access to data for download and display.
If you are logged in, select the series using the check boxes and click the Download or Display buttons located at the top of the search results table.
Or, just click on the table icon 
within the in the search result table to see that one series.
Make sure you have created a dataset first. You can do this by going to the "Create New Set" link in the sidebar.
Once you have created a new set, it will appear in the drop-down box on top of the search results table.
Click the checkboxes in the table to select the series you want, select the dataset name from the drop down list, and hit the "Add" button beside the dropdown box.
Check to make sure you're logged in. You may have to refresh this page just after logging in. Your dataset list should appear in the top left area of the sidebar.
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Select the series you're interested in from the search results table. Hit the 'Download' button on top of the Search results table. Macrospect will create a file called 'Selections.txt' by default. Some browsers will allow you to change the name of the file being saved.
If you want to download data for one of your datasets, simply click on the 'down-arrow' icon 
beside the set in the My Data Sets list in the sidebar.
This will create a file with the same name as your data set.
NOTE: Data files downloaded from Macrospect are saved as TAB-separated ASCII text, e.g. "Selections.txt" or "MyDataSet.txt". Text files are easy to open in almost all analysis software, including Excel, Stata, SAS, SPSS, Eviews, etc.
Open Excel, and choose File | Open, select File Type ".txt" or "Any". Select your file and open it.
In Excel's Import Wizard, choose "delimited", "Next", choose "Tab" delimiter, then click "Next", then click "Finish".
Yes, please do. Just say something like "Graph courtesy of Macrospect.com" or "Graph from Macrospect.com, used with permission".
A dataset is a collection of data series that you are interested in.
You can create one or more sets, and when you find data series you think you'll want to keep track of in the future, add them to a set.
Once you've set up your dataset(s), you can review them or download the data from them at any time.
The data in datasets is always updated when the Macrospect database is updated.
