• deft@lemmy.wtf
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    They do but most countries have a means of tracking national suicide rates. China intentionally doesn’t and this is a repeated pattern with the country’s healthcare reporting.

    We simply can’t even argue about it because the data is unavailable. So this claim is also unverifiable.

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      8 days ago

      So in other words, you don’t have any proof, and are using the lack of proof as evidence. That’s not how proof works.

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        That’s silly.

        In other words the data is incomplete from the top so any further discussion is speculation at best.

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            Nope I’m noticing a discrepancy in data and pointing it out. What China does is hide information and the rest of you are embracing a speculation because again, the data isn’t available.

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                We’re not going in circles I told you this. China intentionally under reports. Have a good day

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                    Death registration data is unavailable or unusable for China due to quality issues. Estimates of mortality by cause should be interpreted with caution. These estimates may be used for priority setting, however, they are not likely to be informative for policy evaluation or comparisons among countries.

                    https://data.who.int/countries/156

                    We can also review an excerpt from the population introduction from the Chinese Statistical Yearbook, which the study someone cited above cites as their primary data source.

                    Data in this chapter are prepared by the Department of Population and Employment Statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics. In tables 2-1 to 2-6, figures for 1981 and before are from household registrations; data for the year 1982, 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2020 are the census year estimates; the rest of the data covered in those tables are estimates from the annual national sample survey on population changes and data for selected years have been revised

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                    Why do you guys act like I’m saying this? China doesn’t release these stats, they have no means to track them consistently across each province. Lmfao