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Week1.  Data Management and Visualization

Dataset: Gapminder 

Research question: Is suicide rate  associated with income?

After looking through the codebook for Gapminder, I have decided that I am particularly interested in the suicide rate and its relation with the attribute income. However due to the low number of variables in the codebook (15 variables). I will work with the whole dataset to find other important relationships for suicideper100TH.

Literature review: I found two important papers related with the effect of the income in suicide which suggest that I am in a right path to determine its relation and the countries with more significant cases. For instance, the paper ‘Suicide and poverty in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review” suggests that although a great proportion of suicides occurs in low income countries there is not enough evidence of this association to generate efficient strategies to prevent this situation. 

The paper called “Explaining the income and suicidality relationship: income rank is more strongly associated with suicidal thoughts and attempts than income” concludes that the relationship between suicides and income should be evaluated among social groups. The paper shows that the suicide is related with the income but add more factors to identify the reasons for this situation.

My hypothesis is that countries with less income and bigger social gaps will have more suicides attempts than countries with wealthy and stable economies.