Table 3.

Proportion of suicides that used work-related means to suicide, within categories classified as having and not having access to these lethal means of suicide, 2001 to 2012, females, Australia

	Occupations without access	Occupations with access to firearms	Occupations with access to medicine and drugs	Occupations with access to carbon monoxide	Occupations with access to poisons
Females (n = 1550)	n=1236	n = 46	n = 192	n = 12	n = 64
Firearms	2.43	17.39	0.52	0.00	3.13
Medicine and drugs	17.96	8.70	46.35	16.67	17.19
Carbon monoxide poisoning	14.72	8.70	10.42	50.00	14.06
Poisons	1.05	4.35	0.52	0.00	1.56
Hanging	43.04	41.30	27.60	16.67	45.31
Driving/hit by vehicle	2.51	2.17	1.56	0.00	6.25
Jumping	7.77	2.17	2.08	0.00	6.25
Drowning	3.24	4.35	4.17	8.33	3.13
Other	7.28	10.87	6.77	8.33	3.13

Notes: “Other” methods includes a small number of suicide methods such as cutting, death by immolation, death by electrocution, and missing methods