Cluster Suicides Among Unemployed Persons in Australia Over the Period 2001–2013

Allison Milner (), Lay San Too () and Matthew J. Spittal ()
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Allison Milner: The University of Melbourne
Lay San Too: The University of Melbourne
Matthew J. Spittal: The University of Melbourne

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2018, vol. 137, issue 1, No 10, 189-201

Abstract: Abstract There has been no research on whether particularly vulnerable people such as the unemployed are prone to being in a suicide cluster (defined as an unusually high number of suicides occurring in a defined geographical area and/or over a relatively brief period of time). We investigated the presence of unemployed suicide clusters in Australia over the period 2001–2013 using a Poisson discrete scan statistic approach. Spatial, temporal and spatial/temporal clusters comprised 13.4, 4.4 and 1.7% of all unemployed suicides respectively. These results suggest the importance of targeting preventative efforts in where large numbers of unemployed persons who have died by suicide resided before death.

Keywords: Unemployment; Suicide; Cluster; Temporal; Spatial; Job loss (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-017-1604-6

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