Table 2.
Estimates from joinpoint analyses of age-standardized suicide rates for men and women in Norway, 1969–2012
| Joinpoint analysesa: 1969–2012 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average Annual ASR (1969–2012) | Trend 1 | Trend 2 | Trend 3 | Full range | |||||
| Years | APC | Years | APC | Years | APC | AAPC (95 % CI) | P value | ||
| Male | 22.9 | 1969–1989 | 3.1* | 1989–1994 | −5.6 | 1994–2012 | −1.2* | 0.3 (−0.5 to 1.0) | 0.481 |
| Female | 8.2 | 1969–1988 | 4.0* | 1988–1995 | −5.5* | 1995–2012 | 0.1 | 0.9 (−0.0 to 1.8) | 0.057 |
Abbreviation: ASR age-standardized rate, APC annual percentage change, AAPC average annual percentage change
aJoinpoint Regression Program version 4.2.0.1 (National Cancer Institute/US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md). The annual percentage change and the average annual percentage change are based on rates that were age-standardized to the 2011 Norwegian census population
*The annual % change (APC) is statistically significantly different from zero (P < .05)