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Table 3 Coefficients for correlations between data on Google searches for ‘depression’ and ‘suicide’ and official data on suicide occurrences

From: Estimating suicide occurrence statistics using Google Trends

 

Depression (Google)

p -value

Suicide (Google)

p -value

Suicides

0.2124

0.0198

0.1626

0.0760

Depression (Google)

  

0.6580

<0.01

  1. We find that the correlation between occurrences of suicides and Google searches for ‘depression’ is statistically significant but low. There is no evidence of a correlation between occurrences of suicide and Google searches for ‘suicide’. Google searches for the two terms are strongly correlated.