Suicide in Canada: birth-cohort analysis.

Analysis of suicide mortality in Canada by birth cohort shows that the mortality rates have been higher at all ages in each successive generation of birth. Among the most recently born cohorts for whom information is available so far only until early adult life the increase over earlier-born generations has been particularly sharp. The mortality differentials from one birth cohort to the next are considerably higher for males than females. The analysis also reveals the impact of the Great Depression (elevation of rates) and of World War II (decline of rates) on age-specific suicide mortality rates in the generations in early adult life during those periods. (SUMMARY IN FRE) (EXCERPT)