User talk:Dbaker1972

Hi --

There may be significant errors on the page entitled "List of countries by intentional homicide rate" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate), and in particular at the listings by specific country. I clicked on the link to the source data from UNODC (http://www.unodc.org/documents/gsh/data/GSH2013_Homicide_count_and_rate.xlsx) and looked at the Excel spreadsheet from that site.

I find that the data in that spreadsheet is entirely different from the data on the Wikipedia page. I'd edit the Wikipedia page myself if there were just a couple of errors, but since it appears that none of the data is the same in both places, I can't tell if I'm misreading the data or if whoever entered (or imported) the data did so incorrectly, or if there is some other explanation.

Just as one simple example, on the Wikipedia page Brazil is said to have a rate of 21.8, but the UNODC spreadsheet indicates a rate of 25.2 in 2012 (and in no prior year is the rate 21.8, from 2007 through 2011, i.e., the only rates given in the UNODC spreadsheet).

If anyone can explain these differences, I'd really love to hear it.

Thanks,

DB--DB (talk) 22:12, 17 April 2014 (UTC)