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Release: World Uncertainty Index
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Name                                                                              Real Time Start  Period End
World Uncertainty Index                                                           2020-04-30       2024-10-15
Link
https://worlduncertaintyindex.com/data/                                           2020-04-30       2024-10-15
Source
Ahir, Hites                                                                       2020-04-30       2024-10-15
Bloom, Nick                                                                       2020-04-30       2024-10-15
Furceri, Davide                                                                   2020-04-30       2024-10-15
Notes
The World Uncertainty Index is computed by counting the percent of word           2020-04-30       2024-10-15
"uncertain" (or its variant) in the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) country
reports. The WUI is then rescaled by multiplying by 1,000,000. A higher number
means higher uncertainty and vice versa. For example, an index of 200
corresponds to the word uncertainty accounting for 0.02 percent of all words,
which—given the EIU reports are on average about 10,000 words long—means about 2
words per report.  Similarly, the World Pandemic Uncertainty Index is
constructed by counting the percent of times uncertainty is mentioned within a
proximity to a word related to pandemics, while the index of discussion about
pandemics is constructed by counting the percent of times a word related to
pandemics is mentioned in the EIU country reports, and then are re-scaled by
multiplying by 1,000.
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Release Dates:
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2020-04-30
2020-07-23
2020-10-19
2021-01-19
2021-05-18
2021-07-15
2021-10-14
2022-02-20
2022-04-15
2022-07-13
2022-10-15
2023-02-09
2023-02-10
2023-04-15
2023-06-28
2023-10-15
2024-01-15
2024-04-15
2024-07-28
2024-10-15
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