Resource Tag: DEMOGRAPHY

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The suicides of a region’s residents were compared with people who were temporarily visiting the region. Using American death records from 1973-2004, the focus was on states with highest & lowest suicide rates over the study period. In the high suicide region, visitors to & residents away from the region both had elevated suicide rates, […]

In ten nations from 1900 to 1988, birth rates were more consistently & more strongly associated with suicide rates than were marriage rates, confirming the results of a study in Bavaria by Wiedenmann & Weyerer. Countries examined included: England/Wales, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, & Switzerland. (5 refs.) JA

Modern correlation analyses confirm Durkheim’s (1888) conclusion that lower birth rates in European nations are associated with higher suicide rates for both data from the 1870s and from 1980. Countries in this study included Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England & Wales, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, & Switzerland. (7 refs.) JA

This study explores the relationship between occupation & suicide for 32 occupational groups. Data are from the national mortality file tapes which cover 21 American states. Bivariate logistic regression models found a total of 15 occupations with either significantly higher (e.g. dentists, artists, machinists, auto mechanics, & carpenters) or lower (clerks, elementary school teachers, cooks) […]

To better understand how educational attainment & marital status impact the likelihood of suicide among various age-gender-race/ethnic groups in America, Gibbs & Martin’s theory of status integration is tested. The disribution of suicide rates from 1991-1994 in the United States for people of different status categories of age, gender, education, marital status, & race/ethnicity is […]

This study sought to develop a set of easily obtainable, relevant measures of a community’s condition that could be used to guide its suicide prevention efforts. Existing data were gathered across 159 Georgia counties for 9 potential social indicators that had been chosen by the communities. Data on these from 1995-1999 were averaged & analyzed […]

The presenter discussed the effects of social mobility & internal migration on suicide in SR Macedonia after World War II. In just over 20 years, from 1948 to 1971, the population structure changed from being mostly rural to being just over 50% urban. However, suicide still occurred most frequently in the rural population. Overall, results […]

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A study of the regional variation of suicide rates over the sixteen Bundeslander of Germany in 1996 revealed that suicide rates were higher in regions with a higher unemployment rate, lower marriage and birth rates, and in regions from the former East Germany. (7 refs.)

Using data from 49 developing & developed countries for the period around 1995, elderly suicide rates & the elderly/non-elderly suicide ratio are examined. Results show the direction of socio-economic change impacts differentially on elderly suicide rates, the rates in regressing economies being appreciably higher than in progressing economies. However, the impact of socio-economic trends on […]

This article uses a utility based theory of suicide to conclude that a fall in the well-being of the female population in a country relative to the male population should imply a rise in the ratio of female suicide rate to male suicide rate. An application of this inference is attemtped for Indian states & […]

This study identified some of the risk factors associated with homicidal & suicidal behaviours in Trinidad & Tobago by disaggregating the homicide & suicide data available from police records for distinct geographical regions. Spearman rank correlation was used to determine whether any of the observed variations could be attributed to social or demographic factors. Homicide […]

Time-series analyses for data collected in Spain for 1950-1985 indicated that marriage & birth rates were positively associated with suicide rates. (3 refs.)

States included in this study: Alaska, Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, South Carolina, & Virginia.

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Introduction: Suicide rates among men have increased in Scotland while falling in neighbouring countries. A national suicide prevention strategy has been produced. Previous work found that some rural areas of Scotland had higher than average rates of male suicide and undetermined deaths. This article describes the association between population density and suicide and undetermined death rates […]

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This study tested the hypothesis that suicide rates in the United States are associated with indicators of access to health care services. An ecological study compared age-adjusted suicide rates for men & women with demographic, socioeconomic, & other indices of access to health care by state. In multivariate models of associations, the state rate of […]

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This summary of vital statistics reports that death rates for children from all major causes declined in 1998. Specifically, the age-adjusted death rate for suicide declined 6%. (53 refs)

This article provides a summary of vital statistics data in the United States for the year 2000. The authors report that while the age-adjusted death rate for suicide declined 4% between 1999 & 2000, suicide levels did not change amongst children as a group. (53 refs)

The authors sought to determine differences by gender among elderly persons who die by suicide on demographic characteristics, location of suicide, method, previous suicidality, & precipitant stressors. Relative to elderly female suicides, they found that elderly males characteristically use guns, are single, live in rural areas, have a lower frequency of previous attempts, & feature […]