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DEATH from suicide is generally agreed to be under-recorded. It is argued that suicide statistics are therefore too unreliable to be of value for research into the causes of suicide.
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SAINSBURY, P., BARRACLOUGH, B. Differences between Suicide Rates. Nature 220, 1252 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2201252a0
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