Variable-width ("variwide") bar chart showing percent lethality, and percent of attempts, for each of eight methods of attempting suicide, area of rectangles showing percentage of all lethal attempts
Source data: Spicer, Rebecca S.; Miller, Ted R.  (December 2000). "Suicide Acts in 8 States: Incidence and Case Fatality Rates by Demographics and Method". American Journal of Public Health 90 (12): 1885-1891. DOI:10.2105/ajph.90.12.1885. "Table 1"—  Link to PDF of data source (from bottom of Table 1)Technical description:— height of bar shows lethality (percent of time a suicide attempt results in death)
— width of bar shows percent of time each method is used in a suicide attempt
— by implication, the area of each bar represents the total number of lethal attempts for each methodThe SVG code for the background and axes was automatically generated by the "Bar charts" spreadsheet linked at RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG
SVG code for the bars was generated by a custom-designed spreadsheet that may be downloaded from Google Drive
Variable-width bar charts can be more easily generated using the "Variable-width bar charts" spreadsheet linked at User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG.
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