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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 10.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2015 Mar 17;48(6):674–682. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2014.12.011

Table 1.

Number and Rate of Suicides Occurring in the Workplace and Non-workplace: CFOI and WISQARS, 2003–2010

Year Workplacea Non-Workplaceb


Suicides Denominator
(CPS)
Rate per
1,000,000
Suicides Denominator
(census)
Rate per
1,000,000
2003 210 137,735,800 1.5 30,846 225,306,629 136.9
2004 198 139,252,000 1.4 31,761 227,888,633 139.4
2005 174 141,729,600 1.2 31,990 230,540,584 138.8
2006 202 144,427,100 1.4 32,674 233,456,688 140.0
2007 182 146,046,500 1.2 34,054 236,185,097 144.2
2008 247 145,362,400 1.7 35,371 238,867,600 148.1
2009 254 139,877,500 1.8 36,165 241,424,041 149.8
2010 252 139,064,000 1.8 37,639 243,275,505 154.7
Total 1,719 1,133,494,800 1.5 270,500 1,876,944,777 144.1

Note: Suicide totals and rates were generated by the authors with restricted access to CFOI microdata.

a

83 military and 2 “unknown” age suicides removed from the total workplace suicides.

b

Total non-workplace suicides from WISQARS excludes the total counts of workplace suicides from CFOI (1,719) plus the 83 military cases from CFOI.

CPS, Current Population Survey; CFOI, Census of Fatal Occupational Injury; WISQARS, Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting Systems.