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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 2.
Published in final edited form as: Omega (Westport). 2009;60(4):365–382. doi: 10.2190/om.60.4.d

Table 1.

Comparing Characteristics between Informants of Suicides and Those of Living Controls

Variable Informants
of suicides
n = 132
f (%)
Informants
of controls
n = 132
f (%)
t or χ2 p
Family member
    Yes 63 (47.7) 63 (47.7) 0.000 1.000
    No 69 (52.3) 69 (52.3)
Gender
    Male 52 (39.4) 35 (26.5)
    Female 80 (60.6) 97 (73.5) 4.956 0.026
Age 132 (m = 50.11, sd = 12.47) 132 (m = 42.76, sd = 12.96) 4.695 0.000
Marital status
    Married 105 (79.5) 116 (87.9)
    Others 27 (20.5) 16 (12.1) 3.361 0.067
Family size
    1~3 88 (66.7) 85 (64.4)
    4 and above 44 (33.3) 47 (35.6) 0.151 0.698
Family annual income
    Lower than 10,000 71 (53.8) 61 (46.2) 1.515 0.218
    10,000 and above 61 (46.2) 71 (53.8)
Depression status
    No 74 (56.1) 93 (70.4)
    Possible 14 (10.6) 17 (12.9) 9.785 0.008
    Yes 44 (33.3) 22 (16.7)
Residence
    Urban 8 (6.1) 18 (13.6)
    Rural 124 (93.9) 114 (86.4) 4.266 0.039
Education level
    No school 8 (6.1) 6 (4.6)
    Elementary 62 (47.0) 47 (35.6)
    Middle school 47 (35.6) 51 (38.6) 7.390 0.117
    High school 6 (4.5) 7 (5.3)
    College and above 9 (6.8) 21 (15.9)
Religion
    Atheism 119 (90.2) 122 (92.4) 0.429 0.513
    Others 13 (9.8) 10 (7.6)
Believing in God
    Yes 16 (12.1) 20 (15.2) 0.515 0.473
    No 116 (87.9) 112 (84.8)
Believing in afterlife
    Yes 11 (8.3) 9 (6.8) 0.216 0.642
    No 121 (91.7) 123 (93.2)