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 Iraq Series ID: WPDIIRQ 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 9.129919 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 21.128250 1998-01-01 8.203445 1998-04-01 0.000000 1998-07-01 0.000000 1998-10-01 21.244960 1999-01-01 16.835020 1999-04-01 15.827790 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 4.892128 2003-07-01 0.000000 2003-10-01 0.000000 2004-01-01 0.000000 2004-04-01 0.000000 2004-07-01 0.000000 2004-10-01 0.000000 2005-01-01 0.000000 2005-04-01 0.000000 2005-07-01 0.000000 2005-10-01 0.000000 2006-01-01 0.000000 2006-04-01 0.000000 2006-07-01 0.000000 2006-10-01 0.000000 2007-01-01 0.000000 2007-04-01 0.000000 2007-07-01 0.000000 2007-10-01 0.000000 2008-01-01 0.000000 2008-04-01 0.000000 2008-07-01 0.000000 2008-10-01 0.000000 2009-01-01 0.000000 2009-04-01 0.000000 2009-07-01 0.000000 2009-10-01 0.000000 2010-01-01 0.000000 2010-04-01 0.000000 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 5.582850 2014-10-01 20.543720 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 75.930140 2020-04-01 510.142100 2020-07-01 166.627000 2020-10-01 168.792200 2021-01-01 143.586500 2021-04-01 223.750700 2021-07-01 97.759060 2021-10-01 100.282600 2022-01-01 9.949259 2022-04-01 0.000000 2022-07-01 0.000000 2022-10-01 18.450180 2023-01-01 13.948950 2023-04-01 8.735150 2023-07-01 0.000000 2023-10-01 0.000000 2024-01-01 0.000000