Table 2.

Association between unemployment and suicide mortality rates within each group defined by recession

		F	df	p-value
Both sex	Unemployment × no recession	1.631	1.756	0.2072
	Unemployment × recession	5.984	4.167	0.00098
Women	Unemployment × no recession	0.719	1.000	0.403
	Unemployment × recession	0.003	1.000	0.955
Men	Unemployment × no recession	0.922	2.368	0.41611
	Unemployment × recession	5.638	2.823	0.00423

F, F in F test of significance for the smoothed variable; df, estimated residual degrees of freedom; p-value, p-value of F test.