Suicide Rates in Germany — Suicide • vcd

Data from Heuer (1979) on suicide rates in West Germany classified by age, sex, and method of suicide.

data("Suicide")

Format

A data frame with 306 observations and 6 variables.

Freq: frequency of suicides.
sex: factor indicating sex (male, female).
method: factor indicating method used.
age: age (rounded).
age.group: factor. Age classified into 5 groups.
method2: factor indicating method used (same as method but some levels are merged).

References

J. Heuer (1979), Selbstmord bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart.

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

Source

Michael Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data: http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/ftp/sas/vcd/catdata/suicide.sas

Examples

data("Suicide")
structable(~ sex + method2 + age.group, data = Suicide)
#>                  method2 poison  gas hang drown  gun knife jump other
#> sex    age.group                                                     
#> male   10-20               1160  335 1524    67  512    47  189   464
#>        25-35               2823  883 2751   213  852   139  366   775
#>        40-50               2465  625 3936   247  875   183  244   534
#>        55-65               1531  201 3581   207  477   154  273   294
#>        70-90                938   45 2948   212  229   105  268   147
#> female 10-20                921   40  212    30   25    11  131   100
#>        25-35               1672  113  575   139   64    41  276   263
#>        40-50               2224   91 1481   354   52    80  327   305
#>        55-65               2283   45 2014   679   29   103  388   296
#>        70-90               1548   29 1355   501    3    74  383   106