Deaths of despair

Planned This chapter has not been written. It is listed so the book shows its full scope.

The question

Do county suicide, alcohol and overdose deaths track the presidential swing over time?

The data

• CDC WONDERYears: Not acquired; the edition and years are to be recorded at acquisition.

cdc-wonder

The scope

Places Each row of the data is a place such as a county or a neighborhood, so results describe places. They do not describe the people in them.

The chapter sits in Part XIII, Hardship, health and the vote, the political map. Its unit of analysis is places. See how the book treats evidence.