The well known differences in suicide rates among the European countries (especially the Scandinavian) are often explained as artifacts of statistical gathering and reporting. It is pointed out that the relative-rate differences reported by these countries obtain to a surprising (and reliable) extent in their immigrants to the United States where such statistics are gathered and reported by the same agents. It is suggested, therefore, that at least some portion of these differences is genuine.
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