Extended Data Fig. 5: Heterogeneous effects of the COVID-19 pandemic across geography.
From: Increase in suicide following an initial decline during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
This graph describes the results of the effects of the pandemic on suicide during the first and second outbreaks across locations with different prefecture-level intensity of health interventions (panel a), prefecture-level economic shock (b), and base share of urban population (c). The intensity of health intervention is measured by the level of decline in the Google Community Mobility index at workplaces, and economic shock by the changes in unemployment rate. If the variable in a prefecture or city is lower than the median, the prefecture or city is defined as ‘low’. All regressions include city-by-year fixed effects and city-by-month fixed effects and are weighted by population, and standard errors are clustered at the city level. N= 23,530 (a, low), 37,679 (a, high), 26,004 (b, low), 35,205 (b, high), 18,784 (c, low), 42,425 (c, high). The separated observations are dropped (see Methods).
