Table 3.

Summary of sensitivity analysis for estimates of production losses attributable to suicide deaths in European Union countries in 2015

	Averagea change	Minimum change from base scenario	Maximum change from base scenario
Discount rate (BS: 5%)
3.5%	17.4%	14.9% (Greece)	20.5% (Latvia)
0%	86.5%	71.1% (Greece)	105.7% (Estonia)
Coefficient to adjust for decreasing marginal labour productivity (BS: 0.65)
0.6	−7.7%	−7.7% (all countries)
0.7	7.7%	7.7% (all countries)
Productivity measure (BS: gross domestic product)
Gross value added	−11.6%	−7.4% (Ireland)	−16.0% (Croatia)
Minimum productivity adjustmentb (BS: average productivity)
	−59.7%	−47.6% (Slovenia)	−65.7% (Spain)
No lower employment rate adjustment (BS: employment rate for those reporting chronic depression)
	92.3%	36.9% (Germany)	238.9% (Cyprus)
Future economic growth (BS: country-specific)
0% for all the countries	−13.4%	−2.0% (Italy)	−33.5% (Latvia)
2% for all the countries	3.8%	0.1% (Hungary)	−19.9% (Latvia)
Labour market entry and retirement age (BS: country-specific)
Sex–specific, average EU values	−0.4%	0.2% (Czechia)	8.1% (Luxembourg)
Both sexes: 18 years and 67 years	5.5%	1.8% (Sweden)	14.9% (Luxembourg)
Events of undetermined deaths included	19.2%	0.1% (Italy)	77.4% (Slovakia)

Notes: a – unweighted average; b – minimal productivity was obtained by dividing the minimum wage by the average wage in particular economies. There was no minimum wage legislation in six EU countries in 2015 (Denmark, Italy, Cyprus, Austria, Finland, Sweden); therefore, the weighted (by population) average value for the remaining countries was used for the states with no minimum wage; this mean was 39.3% of the average wage. Data for undetermined deaths in Cyprus was not available for none of the years; for some other countries and age intervals only some data was obtainable