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An Analysis of the Suicide Rates of Birth Cohorts in Canada
Author(s) -
Lester David
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1988.tb00174.x
Subject(s) - demography , suicide rates , life span , cohort , suicide methods , cohort study , medicine , suicide prevention , gerontology , psychology , poison control , medical emergency , sociology , pathology
An earlier study (Lester, 1984) found that, in the United States, cohorts that had a high suicide rate at one point in their life span had low suicide rates at other points, and vice versa. This result suggested that only a limited number of people in each cohort were suicide‐prone. The present paper replicates this result, using Canadian data from 1921 to the present time.