Kronenberg, Christoph - In: Social Indicators Research 157 (2021) 2, pp. 803-815
validate the newspaper suicide mentions against sparse suicide mortality data and a novel valence measure. This new measure can … determined suicide rates in the past. This is likely due to the lack of consistent data prior to the 20th century. In this … article, I propose using newspaper suicide mentions for the period 1840–1910 as a proxy measure for suicide and perform …