A note on the reliability and validity of suicide statistics

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 52-56

  Goldney, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Reliability; Statistics; Suicide

Indexed keywords

EID: 75649132801     PISSN: 13218719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13218710903268014     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (2007). Technical Note 1: ABS Coding of Suicide Deaths. Retrieved 22 January 2009, from http:// www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/ABS@.nsf/Latestproducts/3303.0Technical%20Not
2. Barraclough, B.M. (1974). Classifying poisoning deaths by motivation: Anglo Scottish differences. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 50, 625-635.
3. Brugha, T., & Walsh, D. (1978). Suicide past and present: The temporal constancy of under-reporting. British Journal of Psychiatry, 132, 177-179.
4. Burvill, P.W. (1998). Migrant suicide rates in Australia and country of birth. Psychological Medicine, 28, 201-208.
5. Burvill, P.W., McCall, M.G., Stenhouse, N.S., & Woodings, T.L. (1982). The relationship between suicide, undetermined deaths and accidental deaths in the Australian born and migrants in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 16, 179-184.
6. Chambers, D.R. (1989). The coroner, the inquest and the verdict of suicide. Medicine, Science and the Law, 29, 181.
7. Goldney, R.D. (2008). Suicide Prevention. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
8. Goldney, R.D., & Schioldann, J.A. (2000). Pre-Durkheim Suicidology. Crisis, 21, 181-186.
9. Legal Correspondent. (1975). Coroners and suicide. British Medical Journal, 3, 238-239.
10. McIntosh, J.L. (for the American Association of Suicidology) (2009). U.S.A. suicide 2006: Official final data. Retrieved 9 April 2009, from http://www.suicidology.org
11. Moore, C. (1790).A Full Inquiry into the Subject of Suicide etc. (2 Vols). London: J. F. and C. Rivington.
12. Morselli, E. (1881). Suicide: An Essay on Comparative Moral Statistics. London: C. Kegan Paul.
13. O'Carroll, P.W., Berman, A.L., Maris, R.W., Moscicki, E.K., Tanney, B.L., & Silverman, M.M. (1996). Beyond the Tower of Babel: A nomenclature for suicidology. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, 26, 237-252.
14. O'Donnell, I., & Farmer, R. (1995). The limitations of official suicide statistics. British Journal of Psychiatry, 166, 458-461.
15. Pescosolido, B.A., & Mendelsohn, R. (1986). Social causation or social construction? An investigation into the social organisation of suicide rates. American Sociological Review, 51, 80-101.
16. Sainsbury, P. (1973). Suicide: Opinions and facts. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 66, 579-587.
17. Sainsbury, P. (1983). Validity and reliability trends in suicide statistics. World Health Statistical Quarterly, 36, 339-348.
18. Sainsbury, P., & Barraclough, B. (1968). Differences between suicide rates. Nature, 220, 1252.
19. Silverman, M.M. (2006). The language of suicidology. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, 36, 519-532.
20. Tuke, D.H. (1892). A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine. London: J. and A. Churchill.
21. Westcott, W.W. (1885). Suicide: Its History, Literature, Jurisprudence, Causation, and Prevention. London: H. K. Lewis.
22. Winslow, F. (1840). The Anatomy of Suicide. London: Henry Renshaw.