Table 1.
Demographics and Worker Characteristics of Farmers and Ag Workers Who Were Victims of Homicide and Suicide, 1992-2010 a,b.
| Homicide | Suicide |
P Value |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 171 (100%) | 230 (100%) | ||
| Gender | Males | 155 | 226 | <.01 |
| Females (n = 20)b | n/a | n/a | ||
| Age | 19 y or under | 7 (4.1%) | 6 (2.6%) | <.01 |
| 20-24 y | 13 (7.6%) | 8 (3.5%) | ||
| 25-34 y | 38 (22.2%) | 28 (12.2%) | ||
| 35-44 y | 37 (21.6%) | 50 (21.7%) | ||
| 45-54 y | 19 (11.1%) | 58 (25.2%) | ||
| 55-64 y | 25 (14.6%) | 33 (14.3%) | ||
| 65+ y | 29 (17%) | 47 (20.4%) | ||
| Race | White | 142 (83%) | 224 (97.4%) | <.01 |
| Other (Black/African American, American Indian/Alaskan Native/Native, Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, Multiple Races) | 26 (15.2%) | 5 (2.2%) | ||
| Employee Status | Self-Employed | 66 (38.6%) | 150 (65.2%) | <.01 |
| Work in Family Business | 7 (4.1%) | 22 (9.6%) | ||
| Work for Pay | 97 (56.7%) | 57 (24.8%) | ||
| Worker Location | Farm | 18 (10.5%) | 12 (5.2%) | <.01 |
| Farm house | 13 (7.6%) | 25 (10.9%) | ||
| Farm, unspecified | 24 (14.0%) | 56 (24.3%) | ||
| Farm building, not silo | 16 (9.4%) | 76 (33.0%) | ||
| Farm land or | ||||
| Commercial store | 54 (31.6%) | 30 (13.0%) | ||
| Employer Size | 1-10 employees | 65 (38%) | 148 (64.3%) | <.01 |
| 11-19 employees | 10 (2.5%) | 9 (2.2%) | ||
| 20-99 employees | 13 (3.2%) | 5 (1.2%) | ||
| 100 or more | 10 (2.5%) | 5 (1.2%) | ||
| Missing | 73 (18.2%) | 63 (15.7%) |
a
Fatal injury data and rates were generated/calculated by the author with restricted access to BLS CFOI microdata.
b
Small cell sizes precluded further stratification.