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Suicide data analysis using multi-criteria decision-making

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pp. 1013–1030Vol. 46Issue 4-AMay 2025DOI: 10.47974/JIOS-1888XML
Received:
08 Oct 2024
Published Online:
31 May 2025
Article type:
Research Article
Language:
EN
Article no.:
JIOS-1888
Pages:
1013–1030

Abstract

Suicide is a serious concern influenced with many socioeconomic, demographic, and psychological variables. A person commits suicide due to reasons like mental illness, inability to face pressure from family or peer, financial burden etc. varying for different sex or age groups. We use five different Multi-Criteria Decision-Making methodologies to analyze suicide data and examine the relationships between a number of characteristics, including gender, age and profession of victims, reasons for committing suicide and the methods used for it. We use majority voting to aggregate the results which may be useful to concerned authorities to create suicide prevention strategies.

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