[Tax-chick]

To what extent does the suicide rate of veterans differ from that of non-veterans in their demographic group?

[WayneS]

+1

I’d like to know how their suicide rate compared to the population as a whole.

[stevie_d_64]

Please quantify comparative demographic categories between Veterans and non-Veterans???

I am curious to know what similarities there are between the two main categories???

Besides the usual gender, race, education sub-categories...

Are you implying the suicide rate for non-Veterans is greater or less than that of Veterans???

[WayneS]

This article contains an interesting analysis of the “22 per day” figure:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2015/02/04/the-missing-context-behind-a-widely-cited-statistic-that-there-are-22-veteran-suicides-a-day/

[superfries]

not sure but google says there are 86 suicides a day. So the article is saying that 25% of all suicides are by vets? Not sure I believe that.