Table 2.
Demographic Factors across the Five Most Common Methods Used in Completed Suicide
| Shooting
|
Hanging
|
Poisoning
|
Jumping
|
CO Poisoning
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | W | t / χ2 | M | W | t / χ2 | M | W | t / χ2 | M | W | t / χ2 | M | W | t / χ2 | |
| N | 968 | 154 | 379 | 76 | 128 | 165 | 106 | 30 | 129 | 43 | |||||
| Age, Mean (SD) |
47.85 (19.85) |
43.36 (18.22) |
2.64** | 40.70 (17.17) |
38.38 (19.67) |
0.96 | 41.54 (12.41) |
49.25 (15.64) |
4.70*** | 40.58 (16.02) |
50.97 (18.93) |
3.00** | 48.12 (17.99) |
53.35 (17.20) |
1.67 |
| Race | |||||||||||||||
| % White | 78.3 | 70.4 | 4.27* | 85.5 | 77.1 | 2.51 | 80.3 | 85.5 | 1.01 | 87.5 | 73.3 | 2.55 | 91.5 | 97.6 | 0.95 |
| % Black | 21.7 | 29.6 | 14.5 | 22.9 | 19.7 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 26.7 | 8.5 | 2.4 | |||||
| Marital Status | |||||||||||||||
| % Married | 33.7 | 24.7 | 5.50 | 32.6 | 35.5 | 1.70 | 23.4 | 34.4 | 32.62*** | 25.0 | 20.0 | 6.96 | 45.0 | 41.9 | 5.64 |
| % Divorced | 19.0 | 19.5 | 17.8 | 15.8 | 22.7 | 27.6 | 12.5 | 26.7 | 17.1 | 25.6 | |||||
| % Single | 37.8 | 43.5 | 44.8 | 40.8 | 52.3 | 23.9 | 59.6 | 43.3 | 31.8 | 18.6 | |||||
| % Widowed | 9.5 | 12.3 | 4.8 | 7.9 | 1.6 | 14.1 | 2.9 | 10.0 | 6.2 | 14.0 | |||||
| Blood Alcohol Level | |||||||||||||||
| % negative | 71.1 | 75.3 | 3.10 | 63.9 | 81.3 | 8.86* | 71.9 | 78.8 | 2.06 | 79.4 | 89.3 | 2.08 | 66.9 | 66.7 | 0.09 |
| % .01 -.04 | 4.9 | 6.7 | 5.5 | 4.0 | 7.4 | 4.5 | 5.2 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 4.8 | |||||
| % .05 -.09 | 6.1 | 4.7 | 7.4 | 2.7 | 6.6 | 5.1 | 6.2 | 3.6 | 5.6 | 4.8 | |||||
| % > .09 | 17.9 | 13.3 | 23.1 | 12.0 | 14.0 | 11.5 | 9.3 | 7.1 | 23.4 | 23.8 | |||||
*
p < .05.
**
p < .01.
***
p <.001.
M = Men, W = Women, CO = Carbon monoxide.
Note. Blood alcohol levels were available for 1,751 men and 501 women, constituting about 96% of the entire sample.