Prabhat Jha
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first heard Jan 2013
last heard Jan 2013
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The official statistics in India, including those for farmers, rely on basically what are police reports of suicide.
And what we noted there is that up to a quarter of the suicides are underreported.
And the reason is obvious, that suicide is a taboo subject.
But when we send survey teams to the household and they know the survey teams, they're much more likely to report a suicide.
So if we think, even if there's some underreporting, we estimate in 2010 close to 190,000 suicides.
So of all the suicides occurring in India, that would suggest it's only about 10% of all of the suicides are actually in farmers.
While farmer suicide is important in India, the main reason for suicide deaths is really occurring at younger ages, particularly around the time that young adults either join the workforce or they get married.
And it's really this context of social pressure that is most associated with suicide, not farming.
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