Contributors in 135 countries around the world work with Premise to share their opinion and collect field data on a variety of topics using its smart-phone app.

These data were collected in bi-weekly waves covering November to January from a total of 10,206 respondents in the US. Premise used stratified sampling of its opt-in panel members, along with post stratification weighting on age, gender, region, and education to construct a representative sample.

• Inflation was not included in the first wave of this study, but at least 40% of people cite the economy or inflation as the most important issue in each wave.
• Health care is always the third most important issue, but has never been chosen as the most important issue by more than 9% of people.
• Despite recent increases in discussion of the Ukraine War, foreign policy received it’s lowest percentage yet in the most recent wave of this study with less than 1% citing it as the most important issue.

This figure was created using ggplot2 and gganimate in R.

A version of the figure focusing on issues besides the economy or inflation can be found here.