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United States Suicide Rates, 1933-1968: An Analysis of Some Trends (IN: Suicidology: Contemporary Developments, ed. by E S Shneidman)
Diggory J C
Presents & discusses data from the annual volumes of Vital Statistics of the U.S. for the years 1900-1968. The objectives of the article are 1) to make the data easily accessible so that a reader can quickly compare local statistics to those for the entire nation, & 2) to display the results of systematic analytical trend analysis as applied to successive annual suicide rates for the indicated subdivisions of the population. (17 refs.) (LH)