Ferrada-Noli M
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Psychol Rep. 1996 Dec;79(3 Pt 1):707-10. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1996.79.3.707.
In a recent analysis of the suicide statistics of two areas of Stockholm of contrasting demographic and socioeconomic status, we found the suicide rate higher in the low-income area. In the present study, the suicide rate of the richest and poorest countries of Sweden were compared to test whether the negative correlation previously found locally between average income in the country and incidence of suicide, also exists in a nationwide extrapolation. The poorest county of Sweden, Berg, manifested an increased suicide rate of 46.2 per 100,000 population [Ratio observed/ expected (O/E) 2.3], whereas the richest, Danderyd, had a rate four times lower (10.8; Ratio O/E, 0.5), being also lower than the Swedish mean suicide rate of 17.2. The findings do not support the socioeconomic hypothesis on incidence of suicide, according to which an increased suicide rate is expected to be observed in demographic units with increased income or economic output.
在最近一项对斯德哥尔摩两个在人口统计学和社会经济地位方面形成对比的区域的自杀统计数据的分析中，我们发现低收入区域的自杀率更高。在本研究中，对瑞典最富裕和最贫穷地区的自杀率进行了比较，以检验先前在当地发现的国家平均收入与自杀发生率之间的负相关关系在全国范围的推断中是否也存在。瑞典最贫穷的县伯格，其自杀率上升至每10万人中有46.2人[观察到的比率/预期比率（O/E）为2.3]，而最富裕的丹德吕德的自杀率则低四倍（10.8；比率O/E为0.5），也低于瑞典17.2的平均自杀率。这些发现并不支持关于自杀发生率的社会经济假说，根据该假说，预计在收入或经济产出增加的人口单位中会观察到自杀率上升。
