Consultant Psychiatrist, UK.
Int J Psychiatry Clin Pract. 1998;2(3):209-14. doi: 10.3109/13651509809115358.
Data on suicide and undetermined deaths were collected for the Rotherham Health District in South Yorkshire, United Kingdom, for a ten-year period from the Coroner's Office and the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS). Certain discrepancies were detected. These included a delay in the recording of deaths by the OPCS, the selective inclusion of coroner's open verdict deaths, and the inclusion within the suicide figures of some deaths found later to be caused through homicide, as well as other minor inaccuracies. The reasons for the differences in the two sets of data and the implications for the accuracy of suicide statistics both nationally and locally are briefly discussed.
英国南约克郡罗瑟勒姆卫生区从验尸官办公室和人口普查与监测办公室收集了为期十年的自杀和未确定死因数据。发现了一些差异。其中包括人口普查与监测办公室对死亡的记录延迟，选择性地包括验尸官的公开裁决死亡，以及将一些后来被认定为谋杀导致的死亡包括在自杀数据中，以及其他一些小的不准确之处。简要讨论了两组数据差异的原因，以及对国家和地方自杀统计数据准确性的影响。
