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 Switzerland Series ID: WPDICHE 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 5.416238 1997-01-01 5.874060 1997-04-01 6.978367 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 12.810660 2002-07-01 0.000000 2002-10-01 0.000000 2003-01-01 0.000000 2003-04-01 0.000000 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 14.294900 2005-01-01 0.000000 2005-04-01 0.000000 2005-07-01 0.000000 2005-10-01 0.000000 2006-01-01 13.014900 2006-04-01 6.414368 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 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 2020-01-01 263.731200 2020-04-01 317.686700 2020-07-01 256.731400 2020-10-01 264.900700 2021-01-01 245.056100 2021-04-01 176.468700 2021-07-01 159.553200 2021-10-01 133.305300 2022-01-01 151.330900 2022-04-01 82.500690 2022-07-01 28.341660 2022-10-01 32.244190 2023-01-01 15.724750 2023-04-01 15.360980 2023-07-01 12.155100 2023-10-01 33.089670 2024-01-01 35.292040