Dataset on suicide time-series structural change analysis in Portugal (1913-2018)
Description
We present 10 tables with different, related data. Table 1 is the result of an extensive narrative literature review depicting published national secular suicide trends extending by at least a century. Table 2 pinpoints all reforms in the statistical national system by year, period and political regimen since 1886. In Table 3, we relate different consecutive versions of international classification of diseases and causes of death, by year of international approval and periodic implementation in the national statistical system, also by period of political regimen, depicting periods when different data was made accessible (sex, age), when categories of causes of external death begun to be collected (total external, suicide, accidents, undetermined), and types of dates were apt to be estimated (eg., crude death rates, age-standardised death rates, age-specific death rates); Table 3 also shows a cumulative index of years and attributes bibliographic primary sources for each line of data since 1886. Table 4 presents economic cycles – recession, stagnation, expansion –, in Portugal, by year, political regimen, with indicated sources, since 1886. Tables 5 to 9 present yearly raw numbers, crude death rates of suicide, accidents, and undetermined deaths, by sex, since 1886 for suicide and 1971 for accidents and undetermined deaths; and age-standardised death rates for the population aged more than 15 years old, by sex, since 1913 for suicide, and 1971 both for accidents and undetermined deaths. Table 10 lists the reference sources for mortality primary data and nosology changes by yearly periods. Finally, Figures shows structural changes and breakpoints, from 1913-2018, by sex and group of cause of death, taking general mortality as a gold standard.