Siena’s CT economic survey due Friday

Upstate New York’s Siena College Research Institute says it will release its Special Connecticut Survey: The Economy and Personal Finances on Friday.

This survey is part of a wider investigation of economic confidence in Connecticut that will include the Connecticut Business Leaders survey to be released early in 2012.

Sponsored by Buffalo’s First Niagara Bank, owner of former NewAlliance Bank in New Haven, the survey investigates the impact of the economy upon Connecticut’s residents and comments on their attitudes, outlooks and the changes they are making in response to difficult financial times, officials said.

Residents comment on faith in the economy, the government, on public policy issues and their own personal struggles with the economy.