Table 1.
Summary statistics of suicide and socio-environmental variables at the LGA level
| |
Mean |
SD |
Min |
Percentiles |
Max |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 50 | 75 | |||||
| Suicide rate (per 100,000) |
14.00 |
9.350 |
0.00 |
10.37 |
12.97 |
16.41 |
168.28 |
| SEIFA |
981.94 |
64.664 |
613.31 |
959.41 |
987.03 |
1015.63 |
1162.11 |
| ATSI (%) |
5.91 |
13.222 |
0.00 |
0.76 |
1.72 |
4.19 |
90.22 |
| Unemployment rate (%) |
8.89 |
3.756 |
1.84 |
6.31 |
8.43 |
10.73 |
41.77 |
| Rainfall (mm) |
720.34 |
376.665 |
162.43 |
448.97 |
655.98 |
876.92 |
3464.77 |
| Temperature (°C) |
18.10 |
3.756 |
8.75 |
15.65 |
17.65 |
19.98 |
29.61 |
| Humidity (%) | 58.74 | 8.898 | 28.54 | 54.13 | 60.06 | 64.45 | 77.81 |
Note: SEIFA: Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas in each LGA, score 1000 for the national level. ATSI: Proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders among the total population in each LGA. Unemployment rate: Proportion of unemployed population among the total population in each LGA. Suicide rate, SEIFA, ATSI, unemployment rate and rainfall were presented as yearly average values. Temperature and humidity were presented as monthly average values.