Table 3

Estimated effects (elasticities) of unemployment and Uncrisis on female 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	0.121	0.048	0.012	0.051	0.162	0.752	0.142	0.037	<0.001	0.338^NS	0.172	0.117	0.144	0.083^NS
2. Southern European countries	153	0.042	0.101	0.679	−0.109	0.109	0.315	0.024	0.066	0.719	3.940^NS	0.030	0.125	0.810	0.191^NS
3. Anglo-Saxon countries	250	0.084	0.059	0.151	−0.372	0.242	0.124	0.007	0.029	0.806	0.291^NS	−0.290	0.121	0.018	0.002^NS
4. Bismarckian	303	0.011	0.014	0.435	−0.055	0.066	0.404	0.023	0.019	0.228	0.888^NS	−0.033	0.097	0.734	0.001^NS
5. Scandinavian countries	204	0.017	0.030	0.570	−0.185	0.125	0.139	0.012	0.042	0.771	0.203^NS	−0.217	0.203	0.286	0.732^NS
F test for heterogeneity†		0.640^NS			1.079^NS			1.843^NS				1.847^NS
All countries	1120	0.040	0.016	0.015	−0.097	0.056	0.081

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