Cohort size and age-specific suicide rates: A contingent relationship
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On the age-period-cohort analysis of suicide rates.
Cohort analysis has become a popular method of examining national trends in suicide rates. Most of the studies investigating this phenomenon have reported a cohort effect to be present. Using a graphical approach, this paper places cohort analysis within the broader framework of age-period-cohort analysis. It is shown that published reports may have failed to identify cohort effects due to usin...
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Declaration of interest None. There have been marked changes in ageand gender-specific suicide rates in England and Wales over the past 50 years (Charlton et al, 1992; McClure, 2000). A feature of the recent trends has been the rise in young male suicides. An important public health concern is that birth cohorts could carry with them their increased predisposition to suicide as they age. Such c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Demography
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0070-3370,1533-7790
DOI: 10.2307/2061766