Table 3.

Coefficients for correlations between data on Google searches for ‘depression’ and ‘suicide’ and official data on suicide occurrences

	Depression (Google)	p -value	Suicide (Google)	p -value
Suicides	0.2124	0.0198	0.1626	0.0760
Depression (Google)			0.6580	<0.01

We find that the correlation between occurrences of suicides and Google searches for ‘depression’ is statistically significant but low. There is no evidence of a correlation between occurrences of suicide and Google searches for ‘suicide’. Google searches for the two terms are strongly correlated.