Variable: World Uncertainty Index

QoG Code: (wui_wui)


Dataset: World Uncertainty Index

Description:

World Uncertainty Index (WUI) was constructed for an unbalanced panel of 143 individual countries on a quarterly basis from 1952. This is the first attempt to construct a panel uncertainty index for a large set of developed and developing countries. The index reflects the frequencies of the word “uncertainty” (and its variants) in the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) country reports. To make the WUI comparable across countries, authors scale the raw counts by the total number of words in each report — the number of “uncertainty” words per thousand words.

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2023-10-20
Last updated by source: 2023-10-13


Categories:

Political System


Find this variable in:

OECD Cross-section - 2024 OECD Time-series - 2024 Standard Cross-section - 2024 Standard Time-series - 2024 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section: 142
Standard time-series: 150
OECD cross-section: 35
OECD time-series: 37


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