Arguing about whether the economy is in fact good or bad

It’s hard to find this data every month, seems to pop up every now and then when they release the full numbers. Regardless, I doubt that these types of metrics are looking great by historical comparison right now.

It depends how you’re using the dataset. If you’re trying to reach broad conclusions about directional trends, you don’t need it to be representative, you just need it to be correlated and maintain that correlation.