Each month, the university conducts a minimum of 500 phone interviews across the continental U.S.
Phone interviews are laughably inaccurate in the present day and a count of 500 is totally inadequate to capture what the entire US thinks about the economy. The left keeps trying to tell people that the economy is fine and that everyone is actually very happy about sky-high rents, unending layoffs, and astronomical grocery prices as if we can't see what's going on with our own bank accounts. This strategy of "don't believe your own eyes or ears" is straight out of 1984.
Even worse, they use phone area codes to correspond respondents to area[0]. This survey is stupid.