Table 3.
Final linear mixed model for contextual factors associated with county-level suicide mortality rate among female individuals in the Region of the Americas.
| Covariates | Estimate | 95% CI |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower | Upper | |||
| Intercept | 1.17 | −1.90 | 4.24 | 0.455 |
| Year | 0.06 | 0.02 | 0.10 | 0.002 |
| Education relative inequalitya | 10.98 | 3.45 | 18.51 | 0.004 |
| Number of employed medical doctors per 10,000 population | −0.09 | −0.14 | −0.04 | 0.001 |
| Proportion of the country with a population density between 500 and 1000 people per km2 (%) | −0.01 | −0.02 | −0.002 | 0.015 |
| Unemployment rate (%) | 0.04 | 0.02 | 0.06 | 0.000 |
a
Ranges from 0 (no inequality) to 1 (high inequality).