title: Explaining regional differences in suicide rates.
abstract: Social characteristics of the states of America in 1959-1961 predicted the suicide rate of those born in noncontiguous states and abroad, but not the suicide rates of those born in-state or in contiguous states. The results were seen as supporting the selective migration explanation of state suicide rates and as not supporting composition and local area explanations.
authors.affiliation: Center for the Study of Suicide, Blackwood, NJ 08012, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
mesh_terms: D004243:Divorce; D006801:Humans; D008393:Marriage; D013405:Suicide; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014478:Unemployment; D014481:United States