Release: World Uncertainty Index
Link: https://alfred.stlouisfed.org/release?rid=470

ALFRED (ArchivaL Federal Reserve Economic Data)
Economic Research Division
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

File Created: 2024-07-07 7:32 AM CDT

                                                                               Release Dates      
Name                                                                        Start         End     
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World Uncertainty Index                                                   2020-04-30   2024-04-15 

Link
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https://worlduncertaintyindex.com/data/                                   2020-04-30   2024-04-15 

Source
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Ahir, Hites                                                               2020-04-30   2024-04-15 
Bloom, Nick                                                               2020-04-30   2024-04-15 
Furceri, Davide                                                           2020-04-30   2024-04-15 

Notes
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The World Uncertainty Index is computed by counting the percent of        2020-04-30   2024-04-15 
word "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:

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