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
<ul><li>Source data: Spicer, Rebecca S.; Miller, Ted R. <cite style="font-style:normal"> (December 2000). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.90.12.1885">Suicide Acts in 8 States: Incidence and Case Fatality Rates by Demographics and Method</a>". <i>American Journal of Public Health</i> <b>90</b> (12): 1885-1891. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" class="extiw" title="w:Digital object identifier">DOI</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.90.12.1885">10.2105/ajph.90.12.1885</a>. "Table 1"</cite></li></ul><dl><dd><dl><dd>—  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1446422/pdf/11111261.pdf">Link to PDF</a> of data source (from bottom of Table 1)</dd></dl></dd></dl><ul><li>Technical description:</li></ul><dl><dd><dl><dd>— <b>height</b> of bar shows lethality (percent of time a suicide attempt results in death)</dd>
<dd>— <b>width</b> of bar shows percent of time each method is used in a suicide attempt</dd>
<dd>— by implication, the <b>area</b> of each bar represents the total number of lethal attempts for each method</dd></dl></dd></dl><ul><li>The SVG code for the background and axes was automatically generated by the "Bar charts" spreadsheet linked at <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:RCraig09/Excel_to_XML_for_SVG" title="User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG">RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG</a></li>
<li>SVG code for the bars was generated by a custom-designed spreadsheet that may be downloaded from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HOwq8qm6B4zlk3k-O8Tiex67s2FoSLSe/edit?usp=share_link&amp;ouid=108538409503128726006&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true">Google Drive</a></li>
<li>Most text was added in a text editor</li></ul>
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