Issues Polls
Issues Poll 2023
September 13, 2023: Suffolk University Sawyer Business School/USA TODAY Main Street Survey of Consumer Issues
Poll Documents
Suffolk Article
USA TODAY Articles
- Spending less, worrying more: Why Americans are so gloomy about the economy
- From food costs to holiday spending: Americans say they're being pummeled by the economy in dire new poll
- How is Bidenomics playing in steel country? Angst about inflation is adding to skepticism
- Split screen: Washington descends into chaos as economic anxiety rises on Main Street
- Inflation weighing on Americans, and they trust Trump, not Biden, to fix it, poll shows
Statement of Methodology
This survey of 1,000 residents of the United States was conducted between September 6 and September 11, 2023, and is based on live telephone interviews of adults 18 years of age or older, residing in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Quota and demographic information --including region, race, and age -- were determined from 2020 national census data. Samples of both cell phones and standard landlines were called using a probability-proportionate-to-size method, which means that the phone numbers assigned to each state were proportional to the number of residents in each state. States were grouped into four general regions. Surveys were administered in English and Spanish. The margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is +/-3.1 percentage points. Error margins increase for smaller subgroups in the cross-tabulation document above. All surveys may be subject to other sources of error, including but not limited to coverage error and measurement error. The following Sawyer Business School students contributed questions for this survey: Tina Do and Joaquin Heller Della-Vecchia.