Table 2.

Comparison of the distribution of sex, age, marital status, race and urban/rural groups before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. p values for categorical variables are based on Chi-square tests. p values for the single continuous variable of age are based on a Student's T-test of means.

	Suicide			Alcoholic			Overdose
	Before	After	p	Before	After	p	Before	After	p
	N = 18458	N = 907		N = 8117	N = 673		N = 20561	N = 1217
Sex:			0.160			0.753			0.003 **
Male	14652 (79.4%)	738 (81.4%)		5627 (69.3%)	471 (70.0%)		13406 (65.2%)	845 (69.4%)
Female	3806 (20.6%)	169 (18.6%)		2490 (30.7%)	202 (30.0%)		7155 (34.8%)	372 (30.6%)
Age at death (mean)	46.5 (18.3)	47.8 (19.4)	0.053	55.3 (10.8)	55.5 (12.3)	0.774	43.0 (13.6)	43.5 (13.5)	0.191
Age categories:			0.017 *			0.076			0.073
0–17	884 (4.94%)	36 (4.17%)		1 (0.01%)	0 (0.00%)		237 (1.19%)	6 (0.51%)
18–65	14244 (79.7%)	664 (76.9%)		6561 (84.1%)	516 (80.6%)		18842 (94.5%)	1103 (94.6%)
Over 65	2755 (15.4%)	163 (18.9%)		1240 (15.9%)	124 (19.4%)		857 (4.30%)	57 (4.89%)
Marital status:			<0.001 ***			<0.001 ***			<0.001 ***
Never married	6087 (34.1%)	291 (34.0%)		2012 (25.9%)	183 (28.9%)		5936 (30.0%)	192 (16.7%)
Married or legally separated	4147 (23.3%)	52 (6.07%)		1714 (22.1%)	45 (7.10%)		2548 (12.9%)	50 (4.34%)
Divorced	5225 (29.3%)	346 (40.4%)		2436 (31.4%)	186 (29.3%)		8331 (42.1%)	658 (57.1%)
Widowed	2370 (13.3%)	168 (19.6%)		1600 (20.6%)	220 (34.7%)		2958 (15.0%)	253 (21.9%)
Racial group:			0.036 *			0.791			<0.001 ***
White	16443 (91.9%)	776 (89.9%)		6964 (89.3%)	569 (88.9%)		16283 (81.7%)	872 (74.8%)
Black/African American	1440 (8.05%)	87 (10.1%)		838 (10.7%)	71 (11.1%)		3653 (18.3%)	294 (25.2%)
Urban/Rural:			0.034 *			0.552			0.139
Rural	5177 (29.4%)	282 (32.8%)		2015 (26.6%)	177 (27.8%)		3544 (18.1%)	187 (16.3%)
Urban	12460 (70.6%)	578 (67.2%)		5556 (73.4%)	460 (72.2%)		16046 (81.9%)	959 (83.7%)