Table 2.

Kendall rank correlation coefficient by gender and age group between the changing suicide rate and the changing unemployment rate during the period of 1976–2015 in Hong Kong at 5% level of significance

Age group	15–24	25–34	35–44	45–54	55–64	65 +
Male
Tau	0.14	0.71	0.10	0.71	0.14	0.24
p-value	0.65	0.02	0.76	0.02	0.65	0.45
Female
Tau	0.43	0.33	0.05	0.14	0.14	0.05
p-value	0.18	0.29	0.88	0.65	0.65	0.88