Table 1.

Suicide mortality by income quintile among Swedish working-age population (30–64 years) in selected cohorts (full data are available in the supplementary metarial)

	1990 cohort			1997 cohort			2004 cohort
	Population	Mortality count	Mortality rate* (95% CI)	Population	Mortality count	Mortality rate* (95% CI)	Population	Mortality count	Mortality rate* (95% CI)
Men
Total	1 883 651	558	29.9 (27.4 to 32.4)	2 008 500	436	21.7 (19.7 to 23.7)	2 022 279	449	22.3 (20.2 to 24.4)
Quintile 1	376 601	180	48.5 (41.3 to 55.8)	401 072	157	39.9 (33.6 to 46.2)	403 759	183	46.7 (39.9 to 53.6)
Quintile 2	375 140	125	34.5 (28.4 to 40.6)	401 527	86	21.6 (17.0 to 26.3)	405 003	100	25.6 (20.5 to 30.6)
Quintile 3	377 854	90	24.3 (19.2 to 29.4)	401 422	64	16.2 (12.2 to 20.2)	404 291	77	19.2 (14.9 to 23.5)
Quintile 4	377 091	86	22.3 (17.5 to 27.1)	402 636	73	18.1 (13.9 to 22.2)	404 470	53	12.8 (9.3 to 16.3)
Quintile 5 (highest)	376 965	77	19.5 (14.9 to 24.0)	401 843	56	14.0 (9.9 to 18.1)	404 756	36	8.6 (5.5 to 11.7)
Women
Total	1 836 890	240	13.2 (11.5 to 14.8)	1 952 129	184	9.4 (8.0 to 10.8)	1 970 943	184	9.1 (7.8 to 10.5)
Quintile 1	365 773	50	14.0 (10.0 to 17.9)	390 227	46	12.3 (8.7 to 15.9)	393 782	63	16.6 (12.3 to 20.9)
Quintile 2	367 228	69	18.4 (14.1 to 22.8)	389 124	53	14.1 (10.3 to 17.9)	393 914	47	11.7 (8.3 to 15.1)
Quintile 3	367 080	46	13.0 (9.2 to 16.8)	390 368	33	8.5 (5.6 to 11.4)	393 373	27	6.7 (4.2 to 9.3)
Quintile 4	368 545	38	10.5 (7.1 to 13.9)	391 809	28	7.4 (4.6 to 10.2)	395 217	27	6.8 (4.2 to 9.5)
Quintile 5 (highest)	368 264	37	9.8 (6.5 to 13.1)	390 601	24	6.1 (3.6 to 8.6)	394 657	20	5.1 (2.7 to 7.4)

*Per 100 000 population, age-standardised.