| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 經濟學系 === 101 === Suicide had been included in the of top ten causes of death for 13 years since 1997 . It seems to become the major public health problems in Taiwan. This paper examines the correlation between socioeconomic factors and suicide with fixed effect model of 23 cities and counties in Taiwan from 2001 to 2010. The socioeconomic factors include unemployment rate, proportion of elderly population, proportion of aboriginal population, divorce rate, female labor force participation rate and in-migration rate.
Empirical results show that unemployment rate has a significant negative correlation with the overall and male suicide rate. On the other hand, divorce rate and in-migration rate have significant positive correlation with the overall and male suicide rate. Proportion of elderly population has significant positive correlation with the overall, male and female suicide rate. In the age group, unemployment rate has a significant negative correlation with the overall, male suicide rate by people aged 25-64 years. Proportion of elderly population has significant impact on the suicide by people aged 25-64 years. Divorce rate has a significant positive correlation with the overall, male suicide rate by people aged 15-24 years. Female labor force participation rate has a significant negative correlation with the overall, male suicide rate by people aged 45-64 years. In-migration rate has a significant positive correlation with the overall, male suicide rate by people aged 25-64 years. We found that both economic and social factors do affect suicide rate. Among all groups, group 25- 64 year-old young men were affected by socio-economic factors the most. The Government should pay more attention to this phenomenon when making suicide prevention policy in the future.
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