NOTE: THIS DATA FILE WILL CHANGE! To improve accessibility of data for all users, we will convert this file from a text format to an html table by the end of June 2024. Title: Discussion About Pandemics Index for Lao P.D.R. Series ID: WPDILAO Source: Ahir, Hites, Bloom, Nick, Furceri, Davide Release: World Uncertainty Index (Not a Press Release) Seasonal Adjustment: Not Seasonally Adjusted Frequency: Quarterly Units: Index Date Range: 1996-01-01 to 2024-01-01 Last Updated: 2024-04-15 2:34 PM CDT Notes: The index of discussion about pandemics is constructed by counting the number of times a word related to pandemics is mentioned in the Economist Intelligence Unit country reports. Specifically, the index is the percent of the words related to pandemic episodes in EIU country reports, multiplied by 1,000. A higher number means higher discussion about pandemics and vice versa. Please see Hites Ahir, Nicholas Bloom and Davide Furceri (2018), 'The World Uncertainty Index' (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3275033) for additional explanation. DATE VALUE 1996-01-01 0.000000 1996-04-01 0.000000 1996-07-01 0.000000 1996-10-01 0.000000 1997-01-01 0.000000 1997-04-01 0.000000 1997-07-01 0.000000 1997-10-01 0.000000 1998-01-01 0.000000 1998-04-01 0.000000 1998-07-01 0.000000 1998-10-01 0.000000 1999-01-01 0.000000 1999-04-01 0.000000 1999-07-01 0.000000 1999-10-01 0.000000 2000-01-01 0.000000 2000-04-01 0.000000 2000-07-01 0.000000 2000-10-01 0.000000 2001-01-01 0.000000 2001-04-01 0.000000 2001-07-01 0.000000 2001-10-01 0.000000 2002-01-01 0.000000 2002-04-01 0.000000 2002-07-01 0.000000 2002-10-01 0.000000 2003-01-01 0.000000 2003-04-01 189.090900 2003-07-01 59.545080 2003-10-01 19.853090 2004-01-01 111.663800 2004-04-01 45.141630 2004-07-01 71.001110 2004-10-01 44.662800 2005-01-01 65.068860 2005-04-01 62.978900 2005-07-01 42.243110 2005-10-01 76.611580 2006-01-01 125.418100 2006-04-01 60.398630 2006-07-01 37.435660 2006-10-01 127.990500 2007-01-01 57.809040 2007-04-01 87.268490 2007-07-01 89.721860 2007-10-01 57.077630 2008-01-01 42.946100 2008-04-01 51.445620 2008-07-01 0.000000 2008-10-01 0.000000 2009-01-01 0.000000 2009-04-01 8.296001 2009-07-01 16.600270 2009-10-01 0.000000 2010-01-01 0.000000 2010-04-01 8.894423 2010-07-01 0.000000 2010-10-01 0.000000 2011-01-01 0.000000 2011-04-01 0.000000 2011-07-01 0.000000 2011-10-01 0.000000 2012-01-01 0.000000 2012-04-01 0.000000 2012-07-01 0.000000 2012-10-01 0.000000 2013-01-01 0.000000 2013-04-01 0.000000 2013-07-01 0.000000 2013-10-01 0.000000 2014-01-01 0.000000 2014-04-01 0.000000 2014-07-01 0.000000 2014-10-01 0.000000 2015-01-01 0.000000 2015-04-01 0.000000 2015-07-01 0.000000 2015-10-01 0.000000 2016-01-01 0.000000 2016-04-01 0.000000 2016-07-01 0.000000 2016-10-01 0.000000 2017-01-01 0.000000 2017-04-01 0.000000 2017-07-01 0.000000 2017-10-01 0.000000 2018-01-01 0.000000 2018-04-01 0.000000 2018-07-01 0.000000 2018-10-01 0.000000 2019-01-01 0.000000 2019-04-01 0.000000 2019-07-01 0.000000 2019-10-01 0.000000 2020-01-01 308.719800 2020-04-01 534.797700 2020-07-01 461.549700 2020-10-01 182.380500 2021-01-01 222.304600 2021-04-01 234.512400 2021-07-01 438.890100 2021-10-01 312.769600 2022-01-01 208.706000 2022-04-01 185.048100 2022-07-01 66.006600 2022-10-01 50.998110 2023-01-01 11.610360 2023-04-01 11.695910 2023-07-01 6.888001 2023-10-01 0.000000 2024-01-01 0.000000