Official Statistics

Question 1

Durkheim

Answer 1

Positivists/Functionalists who researched suicide.
Compared suicide rates and spotted trends and patterns in European countries.
Factors: children, divorce, marital status.
Religion is a big factor. Italy is Catholic- lower suicide rates.
UK is protestant= not as religious

Question 2

Public statistics

Answer 2

Birth- school places
2011 British crime survey
Census