Table 1

Descriptive statistics for each of the corpora

CorpusTokens (individual words)Types
(unique words)
TextsMinimum token countMaximum token countDates captured
UK government speeches 192 340899715842124833 March 2020 to 23 June 2021
Welsh Government updates 316 66813 76769751195831 January 2020 to 17 February 2022
Scottish Government speeches 676 25913 37932717261743 March 2020 to 25 November 2020