Socio-economic determinants of suicide in Singapore : a time series analysis with the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration

Socio-economic determinants of suicide in Singapore : a time series analysis with the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration

Suicide is one of the major causes of death in Singapore even the yearly suicide rates are relatively low as compared to other developed countries. This project examines the determinants of suicide in Singapore for the period of 1980-2012. We estimate the dynamic econometric models for aggregate, ma...

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Main Authors: Liew, Kam Yew, Lee, Liang Tian, Koh, Pei Ying
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
DRNTU::Social sciences::Statistics
DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development::Singapore
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/59313
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Suicide is one of the major causes of death in Singapore even the yearly suicide rates are relatively low as compared to other developed countries. This project examines the determinants of suicide in Singapore for the period of 1980-2012. We estimate the dynamic econometric models for aggregate, male and female suicides by using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration. Our empirical results suggest the associations of suicide with socio-economic determinants (unemployment rate, birth rate and life expectancy at birth). Moreover, our qualitative evaluation of the empirical results has also provided another meaningful argument to the verified determinants.

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