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題名 Inertia and Juvenization of Suicides in Japan: Decomposing the Number of Suicides from 1997 to 2007
作者 陳國樑 ; Joe Chen;Yun Jeong Choi;Kohta Mori;Yasuyuki Sawada;Saki Sugano
貢獻者 國立政治大學財政系
日期 2009
上傳時間 5-Oct-2010 15:35:31 (UTC+8)
摘要 This article investigates the abrupt jump in the number of suicide cases in Japan in 1998 and the subsequent persistency of this figure by utilizing a generalized decomposition formula. In particular, by considering the change in the demographic structure, we decompose the 1998 jump in the number of suicides and the cumulative changes from 1998 to 2007 by age and gender. Our results show that while the abrupt jump in the number of suicides in 1998 is mainly attributed to middleaged males, who are 40 to 59 years old, the consistently high number of suicides after 1998 is because of the suicides of people from the younger generation, i.e., the age group from 20 to 39 years. This "juvenization" in suicides is also reflected by the change in the means for committing suicide. Finally, aging is also identified as an impediment in combating the high suicide numbers.
資料類型 report
dc.contributor 國立政治大學財政系en_US
dc.creator (作者) 陳國樑 ; Joe Chen;Yun Jeong Choi;Kohta Mori;Yasuyuki Sawada;Saki Suganozh_TW
dc.date (日期) 2009en_US
dc.date.accessioned 5-Oct-2010 15:35:31 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 5-Oct-2010 15:35:31 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 5-Oct-2010 15:35:31 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/45071-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) This article investigates the abrupt jump in the number of suicide cases in Japan in 1998 and the subsequent persistency of this figure by utilizing a generalized decomposition formula. In particular, by considering the change in the demographic structure, we decompose the 1998 jump in the number of suicides and the cumulative changes from 1998 to 2007 by age and gender. Our results show that while the abrupt jump in the number of suicides in 1998 is mainly attributed to middleaged males, who are 40 to 59 years old, the consistently high number of suicides after 1998 is because of the suicides of people from the younger generation, i.e., the age group from 20 to 39 years. This "juvenization" in suicides is also reflected by the change in the means for committing suicide. Finally, aging is also identified as an impediment in combating the high suicide numbers.-
dc.language enen_US
dc.language.iso en_US-
dc.title (題名) Inertia and Juvenization of Suicides in Japan: Decomposing the Number of Suicides from 1997 to 2007en_US
dc.type (資料類型) reporten