What events are these?
The data from 100 years ago do not show this marked work-week pattern.
It is a phenomenon that has evolved over the last 50 years.
Some other countries have even most extreme forms of this pattern.^
And no, the events are nothing to be morbid about, even if their pattern
is distressing to agencies such as the WHO, and is seen as un-natural and possibly iatrogenic.
The vast majority of the events are happy ones for all concerned.
In the case of one very prominent person, the issue of the place WHERE
(not the time of day WHEN) this event took place has been contentious.
So the person involved released a copy of the data form^^ that captured
the type of information displayed in Figure 1.
THE ANSWER
^^ The
copy of the completed data form (1961).
A blank form (2003).
Why the weekday morning spikes, after-lunch blips, and the lower numbers on weekends?
The U.S. Government website where JH got the counts from.
Which country leads this wave?
James Hanley james.hanley@mcgill.ca
http://www.biostat.mcgill.ca/hanley
Dept of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, H3A 1A2, CANADA
Updated: May 10, 2017