Social capital and suicide: an ecological study in Tokyo, Japan

Table 2 Pearson’s coefficients (r) between area-based social capital variables and sociodemographic characteristics and age-adjusted suicide rate in 2003–2007 for men and women in 20 cities/municipalities of Tokyo, Japan: an ecological analysis

	Men (n = 20)*		Women (n = 20)*
	r	p	r	p
Sociodemographic characteristics in 2005/2006
Population	−0.308	0.19	0.091	0.70
Population density	−0.348	0.13	0.449	0.05
Unemployment	0.226	0.34	0.241	0.31
Primary industry	0.708	0.00	−0.231	0.33
Elderly people	0.496	0.03	−0.107	0.65
Psychiatrists (/10⁵ pop.)	−0.337	0.15	0.313	0.18
Social capital in 2009
Organizational membership (%)	−0.130	0.58	−0.204	0.39
Social trust (%)	−0.266	0.26	−0.212	0.37
Fairness (%)	0.099	0.68	0.015	0.95
Helpfulness (%)	0.256	0.28	0.027	0.91
Confidence in organizations (score)	−0.192	0.42	−0.080	0.74

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