Table 2

Estimated effects (elasticities) of unemployment and Uncrisis on male suicide rate (20–64 years)

		Fixed-effects estimates						Pooled ARIMA-estimates
		Unemployment			Uncrisis			Unemployment				Uncrisis
Country group	N	Est	SE	p Value	Est	SE	p Value	Est	SE	p Value	F test†	Est	SE	p Value	F test†
1. Eastern European countries	210	0.128	0.028	<0.001	0.068	0.085	0.421	0.149	0.022	<0.001	1.658^NS	−0.041	0.062	0.509	0.403^NS
2. Southern European countries	153	0.166	0.065	0.010	0.000	0.062	0.997	0.133	0.053	0.013	0.071^NS	0.009	0.047	0.842	0.012^NS
3. Anglo-Saxon countries	250	0.085	0.034	0.013	−0.012	0.155	0.939	0.065	0.015	<0.001	0.169^NS	−0.162	0.105	0.125	0.007^NS
4. Bismarckian	303	0.038	0.009	<0.001	0.000	0.045	0.997	0.043	0.009	<0.001	0.957^NS	−0.068	0.059	0.250	0.354^NS
5. Scandinavian countries	204	0.030	0.020	0.136	−0.173	0.084	0.039	0.023	0.021	0.262	0.234^NS	−0.114	0.108	0.294	0.391^NS
F test for heterogeneity‡		2.535*			0.904^NS			3.808*				0.672^NS
All countries	1120	0.062	0.011	<0.001	0.012	0.038	0.746

Estimates from fixed-effects models, and pooled estimates from country-specific ARIMA-models.
*p<0.05; NS p≥0.05.
†F test for heterogeneity of estimates within country groups.
‡F test for heterogeneity of estimates between country groups.