"An Estimate of the Number of Family Members of Suicide Victims in Japan" (in Japanese)

Kohta Mori, Joe Chen, Yun Jeong Choi, Yasuyuki Sawada and Saki Sugano
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Kohta Mori: Department of Economics, Yale University
Joe Chen: Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo
Yun Jeong Choi: Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo

No CIRJE-J-207, CIRJE J-Series from CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo

Abstract: This paper contributes to the literature of suicide studies by presenting procedures for estimating the number of family members who lose their loved ones to suicide. Using Japanese data, three main findings emerge: first, there are approximately five bereaved family members per suicide; second, in 2006, there were about 90,000 children who had lost a parent to suicide; and third, in 2006, there were about three million living family members who had lost a loved one to suicide.

Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2008-12
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