Two ways in
Two interconnected views built on official federal data and the latest published Pew and Gallup readings, refreshed monthly.
Key Performance Indicators
Track all 10 indicators across economic health, government trust, and social confidence with stoplight ratings, trend arrows, and per-point provenance — so you can see at a glance whether each reading is measured or modeled.
View indicatorsCorrelation Analysis
Overlay the composite sentiment index against GDP growth and other macro series over two decades, with annotated inflection points from the 2008 financial crisis through the post-pandemic recovery and today.
View analysisData Sources & Attribution
Macroeconomic series from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the University of Michigan Survey of Consumers, the Conference Board, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis — all accessed via the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) API. Polling series from Gallup, Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0), and the Pew Research Center are scraped, downloaded, or manually backfilled from the publishers' websites. The U.S. Sentiment Signal is not affiliated with any of these organizations.