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1773401

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-2-28
pubmed:abstractText
The correlates of suicide rates were determined by conducting a multivariate study of sociodemographic indicators and suicide rates of 261 Canadian census divisions. Twenty-one sociodemographic variables were entered into a stepwise multiple linear regression to develop a model for suicide rates. The important variables were mortality rate for all causes of death, the age of the population, average family income, population density, proportion with no religious affiliation, proportion of Francophones, unemployment, immigration, proportion of Native people, a regional effect for British Columbia and the north, and growth by mobility, explaining 62% of the observed variation. This spatial ecologic analysis highlights the importance of cultural differences in explaining the variation of suicide rates. The analysis supports the previously found negative relationship between income and suicide while contrasting from previous studies in determining a inverse relationship with unemployment and an inverse relationship with the age distribution.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0706-7437
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
36
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
655-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-8-1
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
The relationship of suicide rates to sociodemographic factors in Canadian census divisions.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Epidemiology, University of Western Ontario, London.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article