title: Suicide and fertility:  a study of moral statistics.
abstract: This paper was originally published in French in 1988 and was written by the sociologist E. Durkheim.  In the forward by John Simons, it is noted that in this article the author "claims to demonstrate an inverse relationship between the suicide rate and the birth rate for the Departements of France, and to explain why this relationship was to be expected."  The data concern the period 1801-1869.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Durkheim
mesh_terms: D001723:Birth Rate; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D005060:Europe; D005298:Fertility; D005602:France; D008722:Methods; D009026:Mortality; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012942:Social Sciences; D012961:Sociology; D013405:Suicide
keywords: Birth Rate; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Europe; Fertility; Fertility Measurements; France; Historical Survey; Mediterranean Countries; Methodological Studies; Mortality; Population; Population Dynamics; Social Sciences; Sociology; Suicide; Western Europe