Residential mobility and suicide in Belgium: understanding the role of union transitions and life stages.

This paper aims to investigate the association between mobility and suicide and the role of the context of the move regarding union transitions – that are closely linked to the residential mobilities – and life stages. Belgian National Register, Population Census, and death certificates allow to follow all individuals aged 20 to 64 registered in Belgium for at least one year between 2008 and 2015 (N=7,246,740 individuals and 4,109 suicides) and to reconstruct their trajectories in terms of mobility and union transitions. Cox proportional hazard models confirm that, except for moves in the... Mehr ...