# U.S. Topical Economic Sentiment Indices

## Cite as

Ardia, D., Bluteau, K., Boudt, K. (2019). Questioning the news about economic growth: Sparse forecasting using thousands of news-based sentiment values. *International Journal of Forecasting*, 35(4), 1370–1386. doi:10.1016/j.ijforecast.2018.10.010

## Coverage

Daily, 2 January 1994 to 31 December 2017. Long format: one row per date, lexicon and topic — 1.37 million rows, 7 lexicons, 44 topics.

Dates absent from the file mean no article was available that day.

## Columns

- `date` — ISO 8601
- `lexicon` — sentiment lexicon used (GI, HENRY, LM, NRC, sentinet, sentiword, socal)
- `topic` — one of 44 economic topics
- `value` — sentiment value

## Differences from the deposited original

The unnamed row-number column and the `Note` column have been removed. The original
is not valid UTF-8; this copy is.

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