Table 1.
Sociodemographic Characteristics by Lifetime Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts
| Characteristics | Suicidal ideation (n = 191) |
Suicide attempts (n = 56) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weighted % (SE) | Rao–Scott χ2 | Weighted % (SE) | Rao–Scott χ2 | |
| Overall lifetime | 8.8 (0.81) | 2.5 (0.31) | ||
| Age | ||||
| 18–24 | 13.3 (2.51) | 20.60*** | 3.5 (1.09) | 12.36* |
| 25–34 | 12.0 (1.74) | 4.0 (0.85) | ||
| 35–49 | 7.8 (1.37) | 2.0 (0.48) | ||
| 50–64 | 5.1 (0.82) | 1.6 (0.49) | ||
| 65 + | 4.1 (1.73) | 0.6 (0.53) | ||
| Gender | ||||
| Male | 7.6 (1.07) | 2.53 | 1.5 (0.34) | 8.57** |
| Female | 9.8 (1.04) | 3.4 (0.56) | ||
| Ethnic origin | ||||
| Chinese | 10.6 (1.26) | 5.13 | 3.2 (0.76) | 2.03 |
| Vietnamese | 6.8 (1.15) | 1.7 (0.57) | ||
| Filipino | 10.0 (2.07) | 2.5 (0.84) | ||
| Other Asian | 7.2 (1.37) | 2.3 (0.50) | ||
| Education | ||||
| Less than 11 years | 6.2 (1.18) | 4.79 | 1.6 (0.60) | 3.42 |
| 12 years | 7.7 (1.02) | 2.9 (0.56) | ||
| 13–15 years | 10.5 (1.69) | 3.3 (0.82) | ||
| 16 years or more | 9.0 (1.38) | 2.2 (0.51) | ||
| Marital status | ||||
| Married | 5.7 (0.67) | 38.43*** | 1.9 (0.34) | 8.66* |
| Never married | 17.9 (2.77) | 4.0 (0.89) | ||
| Divorced/separated/widowed | 9.0 (2.65) | 3.1 (0.82) | ||
| Household poverty | ||||
| Yes | 13.0 (3.28) | 2.85 | 3.5 (0.80) | 1.62 |
| No | 8.2 (0.80) | 2.4 (0.37) | ||
| Nativity | ||||
| U.S. born | 12.4 (2.00) | 7.56** | 3.5 (1.02) | 1.79 |
| Foreign born | 7.6 (0.75) | 2.2 (0.30) | ||
*
p < .05.
**
p < .01.
***
p < .001.