International Journal of Business and Economics Volume 16, No. 1 June, 2017

Awareness of Sexually Transmitted Disease and Economic Misfortune Using Search Engine Query Data

Daniel Farhat

Department of Economics, Radford University, U.S.A.

Abstract

This brief study extracts a measure of general interest in sexually transmitted disease for the United States (2004 – 2012) using Google keyword search data. Trends in this measure are then compared to periods of decline in the US economy.

Keywords：sexually transmitted disease awareness, health and the economy, search engine query data.

JEL Classifications： I1, Z1.

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