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200150100500Uncertainty(larger values = more uncertainty)  2005  2006  2007  2008  2009  2010Economic Policy Uncertainty in the United Kingdom, 2005–2010Year tax and public spending policy trade policy general economic policy
  • For each data category, the following bars are shown:
    • Tax and public spending policy
    • Trade policy
    • General economic policy
  • The data for the 6 categories are as follows:
    • 2005:
      • Tax and public spending policy: 98
      • Trade policy: 160
      • General economic policy: 90
    • 2006:
      • Tax and public spending policy: 65
      • Trade policy: 105
      • General economic policy: 72
    • 2007:
      • Tax and public spending policy: 61
      • Trade policy: 75
      • General economic policy: 77
    • 2008:
      • Tax and public spending policy: 90
      • Trade policy: 71
      • General economic policy: 73
    • 2009:
      • Tax and public spending policy: 76
      • Trade policy: 70
      • General economic policy: 81
    • 2010:
      • Tax and public spending policy: 165
      • Trade policy: 71
      • General economic policy: 118

High levels of public uncertainty about which economic policies a country will adopt can make planning difficult for businesses, but measures of such uncertainty have not tended to be very detailed. Recently, however, economist Sandile Hlatshwayo analyzed trends in news reports to derive measures not only for general economic policy uncertainty but also for uncertainty related to specific areas of economic policy, like tax or trade policy. One revelation of her work is that a general measure may not fully reflect uncertainty about specific areas of policy, as in the case of the United Kingdom, where general economic policy uncertainty blank

Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to illustrate the claim?