Agriculture workers suicde according to Economic Recession

Abstract

suicidal rates amongst agriculture, fisheries, and forestry workers in Korea. Monthly time-series gross domestic product (GDP)

data were linked with suicidal rates gathered from the cause of death records between1993-2008. Data were analyzed using gen- eralized additive models to analyze trends, while a polynomial lag model was used to assess the unconstrained time lag effects of

changes in GDP on suicidal rate. We found that there were significant inverse correlations between changes in GDP and suicide for a time lag of one to four months after the occurrence of economic event. Furthermore, it was evident that the overall relative risks of suicide were high enough to bring about social concern.