> Absolutely, the nature of any suicide is tragic and perhaps has enough > preventable causes. From the NCRB you are indeed right - I had only > looked at data till 2009 when I'd looked earlier, and that shows a > dipping or flat suicide rate: > http://ncrb.nic.in/ADSI2010/table-2.1.pdf > > It's now 11.4 per lakh, when it used to be 10.8 or so in 2000. It was > in the 9's in the 90s, but much of that was also about how data was > collected - standards improved in the 00s. >
The data collection process for reported suicides would be fairly stable and consistent. A suicide is a subset of all unnatural death (UD) cases. These are difficult to manipulate, unlike some other crime statistics, due to the requirement to dispose of a dead body after following the legal process. All UD cases routinely go for autopsy and suicide as a mode of death gets established at the end of the inquest. Regards, Nandkumar >
