Table 4. Adjusted prefecture-level variance for suicide mortality, Japan, 1975–2005^a.

	Men			Women
	Variance (on logit scale)			Variance (on logit scale)
	Estimate	95% CI	Range of OR b	Estimate	95% CI	Range of OR b
Overall	0.018	0.009, 0.028	0.76 to 1.36	0.012	0.006, 0.019	0.79 to 1.22
1975	0.010	0.002, 0.017	0.89 to 1.16	0.011	0.002, 0.021	0.86 to 1.20
1980	0.016	0.006, 0.027	0.75 to 1.30	0.012	0.003, 0.022	0.77 to 1.14
1985	0.019	0.008, 0.029	0.82 to 1.33	0.028	0.010, 0.046	0.76 to 1.28
1990	0.019	0.007, 0.030	0.83 to 1.32	0.016	0.003, 0.029	0.84 to 1.23
1995	0.045	0.023, 0.068	0.63 to 1.64	0.031	0.011, 0.052	0.76 to 1.29
2000	0.033	0.017, 0.050	0.71 to 1.54	0.019	0.004, 0.033	0.80 to 1.26
2005	0.051	0.028, 0.075	0.67 to 1.64	0.016	0.003, 0.030	0.80 to 1.21

CI; credible interval, OR; odds ratio.

^aWe adjusted for age (five year categories) and occupation. We further adjusted for time-trends in the overall model.

^bThe range of adjusted odds ratios for suicide mortality in each prefecture is shown. The reference is the grand mean of all prefectures.