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Some statistical data on suicide in Vietnam
Dân Viet Nam : le Peuple Vietnamien • (3) • Published In 1949 • Pages: 55-59
By: Smolski, T., Messner, Charles A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This brief study of suicide in Vietnam is concerned mainly with the available statistics. Smolski cites the limitations of Vietnamese statistics and of their French models. He presents the distribution of suicides by sex, age and method employed, comparing Vietnamese figures with those of France and other European nations. Smolski follows Durkheim's classification in his survey of the causes of suicide in Vietnam. Additional information on the entire subject of suicide and, specifically, on its causes can be found in Dr. Vu-Cong Hoe's study, DU SUICIDE DANS LA SOCIéTé ANNAMITE, document number 72 in the Indochina file.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Adjustment processes
- Composition of population
- Recreational and non-therapeutic drugs
- Urban and rural life
- Business cycles
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Family relationships
- Kin relationships
- Dependency
- Suicide
- Status and treatment of the aged
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Vietnamese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Jean Mensch ; 1952; Teferi A. Adem ; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1932-1942
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Vietnam
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] T. Smolski
- Translation of: [Quelques donnees statistiques sur le suicide au Vietnam]
- Translated from the French for the HRAF files by Charles Messner ca. 1952
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vietnamese