{"id":291,"date":"2003-11-22T01:28:33","date_gmt":"2003-11-22T08:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2003-11-22T01:28:33","modified_gmt":"2003-11-22T08:28:33","slug":"tu-bi-ar-nagot-tu-bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2003\/11\/tu-bi-ar-nagot-tu-bi\/","title":{"rendered":"Tu bi \u00e5r n\u00e5got tu bi"},"content":{"rendered":"

To be or not to be<\/b>
(or what is Sweden’s suicide rate, once and for all?)
 
Here is a loose translation of what I just wrote in Swedish:<\/em> I couldn’t hack it as Sweden’s best weblog, so I’ve decided to aim for notoriety at any cost — hence my attempt at Sweden’s worst weblog, which should be easily achieved by blogging in Swedish.
 
I have no idea why you would want to read this uncorrected text. My Swedish teacher only reads it because I pay her; and I can’t afford to pay you all to read it.
 
For my first post in Swedish I thought I’d find out if Swedes really like to commit suicide. It’s a persistent meme, as Jonas recently showed on his blog. Last year I blogged a WHO report that covered suicide, and used it to compare US\/Canada and western European suicide levels: They were about the same, 10.5 per 100,000 people per year for western Europe and 10.6 per 100k for the US\/Canada. What amazed me then is that suicide rates are much higher than murder rates, with the difference most evident in Europe.
 
This time, I’ve gone looking for individual country statistics. Once again, a closer look at statistics gives me numbers that don’t add up. In this case, the individual components seem to be higher than the regional aggregates I used last year. The US, for example, has a suicide rate of 13.9\/100k, and Canada’s is 15.0\/100k. Possibly, this discrepancy is due to estimates and projections being made for the regional numbers.
 
In any case, how does Sweden perform compared to the rest of the world?
 
[See list]
 
You can check out more countries on p.186 of the PDF. Clearly, Sweden’s suicide rate is nothing special. Catholic countries tend to have lower suicide rates, eastern European countries tend to have higher ones.
 
If one needs ammunition against the likes of Rush Limbaugh however, here is a useful factoid: Swedish males commit suicide at a lower rate than American males (22.9 vs 23.2). It’s the Swedish women who shuffle off this mortal coil faster than American women (9.2 vs 5.3), proving that even in suicide Sweden is staunchly egalitarian.<\/span>Eftersom det blev f\u00f6r svart att bli Sveriges b\u00e4ste webblogg<\/a>, kom jag p\u00e5 att skriver Sveriges s\u00e4msta webblogg. Detta projekt b\u00f6r vara j\u00e4tte l\u00e4tt f\u00f6r mig, om jag skriver p\u00e5 svenska.<\/p>\n

Jag vet inte varf\u00f6r du skulle vilja l\u00e4sa den h\u00e4r texten. Min l\u00e4rare har inte \u00e4nnu korrigerat det. Hon l\u00e4ser det bara eftersom jag betala henne; jag orkar inte betala allt som kommer hit till min webblogg.<\/p>\n

F\u00f6r den h\u00e4r f\u00f6rsta inl\u00e4ggen p\u00e5 svenska hade jag id\u00e9en att unders\u00f6ka om det \u00e4r sant att Svenskar tycker om att beg\u00e5 sj\u00e4lvmord. Det verkar vara en strong klich\u00e9 om Sverige, som Jonas p\u00e5 Blind H\u00f6na har redan vist<\/a>. Jag kom ih\u00e5g en rapport fr\u00e5n den World Health Organization kallad World Report on Violence and Health<\/a>. Jag hade redan bloggad det<\/a> f\u00f6rre aret, och jag hade j\u00e4mf\u00f6rt sj\u00e4lvmordtal mellan USA\/Canada och v\u00e4st Europa. Niv\u00e5erna var n\u00e4stan samma: 10.5 per 100,000 personer begett sj\u00e4lvmord varje ar i v\u00e4st Europa, och 10.6 i USA\/Canada. Det \u00e4r intressant att i v\u00e4st Europa sj\u00e4lvmordtal \u00e4r mycket h\u00f6gre \u00e4n det mordtal. Det hade jag inte f\u00f6rmodat.<\/p>\n

Men nu har jag hittad informationen om individuella l\u00e4nder<\/a> [PDF]. Vad \u00e4r lite konstigt \u00e4r att de h\u00e4r data komponenter inte st\u00e4mmer \u00f6verens med de regionala summorna. Till exempel, USA h\u00e4r hade ett sj\u00e4lvmordtal av 13.9\/100k och Canada 15.0\/100k. Kanske de regionale numren<\/a>[PDF] var uppskattningar (numren av individuella l\u00e4nder var f\u00f6r specifika \u00e5r). Kanske de var fel. Men J\u00e4mf\u00f6rt resten av v\u00e4rld, hur presterar Sverige i den h\u00e4r listan?<\/p>\n

Sverige: 15.9 (1996)<\/p>\n

USA: 13.9 (1998)<\/p>\n

Argentina: 8.7 (1996)<\/p>\n

Australien: 17.9 (1998)<\/p>\n

Belarus: 41.5 (1999)<\/p>\n

Belgien: 24.0 (1995)<\/p>\n

Cuba: 23.0 (1997)<\/p>\n

Danmark: 18.4 (1996)<\/p>\n

Finland: 28.4 (1998)<\/p>\n

Frankrike: 20.0 (1998)<\/p>\n

Tyskland: 14.3 (1999)<\/p>\n

Holland: 11.0 (1999)<\/p>\n

Ungern: 36.1 (1999)<\/p>\n

Norge: 14.6 (1997)<\/p>\n

Ryskland: 43.1 (1998)<\/p>\n

Storbritannien: 9.8 (1999)<\/p>\n

Spanien 8.7 (1998)<\/p>\n

Schweiz: 22.5 (1996)<\/p>\n

Du kan kolla sj\u00e4lv flera l\u00e4nder p\u00e5 PDFen, sidan 186. Vi kan konkludera att Sveriges sj\u00e4lvmordtal \u00e4r ingenting speciellt. Katolska l\u00e4nder verkar ha f\u00e4rre sj\u00e4lvm\u00f6rdar, och \u00f6st europeiska l\u00e4nder flera.<\/p>\n

Om man beh\u00f6ver ammunition mot argument fr\u00e5n Rush Limbaugh et al, kan man anv\u00e4nda detta faktum: F\u00e4rre Svenska m\u00e4n beg\u00e5r sj\u00e4lvmord \u00e4n Amerikanska m\u00e4n (22.9 vs 23.2). Det \u00e4r Svenska kvinnor som beg\u00e5r mer sj\u00e4lvmord \u00e4n Amerikanska kvinnor (9.2 vs 5.3), som bevisa att \u00e4ven med sj\u00e4lvmord \u00e4r Svenskaren j\u00e4mlikhetstr\u00e4vande. (Jonas, kanske “radikalfeministen” Amy p\u00e5 West Wing vet mer \u00e4n vi f\u00f6rm\u00e5dde:-)<\/p>\n

(Om du har en pl\u00f6tslig l\u00e4ngtan om att korrigera n\u00e5got h\u00e4r ovan, det f\u00e5r du.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To be or not to be(or what is Sweden’s suicide rate, once and for all?) Here is a loose translation of what I just wrote in Swedish: I couldn’t hack it as Sweden’s best weblog, so I’ve decided to aim for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-sweden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eNhC-4H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}