Figure 19.9 is from a time trend analysis study comparing the actual number of suicides in 2009 with the number that would be expected based on trends before the financial crisis (2000–2007). The...

Figure 19.9 is from a time trend analysis study comparing the actual number of suicides in 2009 with the number that would be expected based on trends before the financial crisis (2000–2007). The object was to investigate the impact of the 2008 global economic crisis on international trends in suicide and to identify sex/age groups and countries most affected. The table shows Spearman’s correlation coefficients, 95 per cent confidence intervals and p-values, between changes in unemployment rate and suicide rate between 2007 and 2009 in 50 countries, stratified by unemployment rate before the financial crisis in 2007. What do these results suggest about the association between changes in unemployment and suicide rates?