Baseline factors predictive of serious suicidality at follow-up: findings focussing on age and gender from a community-based study

Table 1 Unadjusted Comparisons between Wave 1 and Wave 2 participants for age groups within gender sociodemographic characteristics (N = 6,648)

	Males
Age Groups	20s		40s		60s
Wave	W1	W2	W1	W2	W1	W2
Marital status, % ^# (AR)
Married/de facto	18.3 (-14.9)	49.8	81.9 (0.5)	81.1	88.6 (0.9)	87.4
Sep/div/widowed	0.3 (-5.2)	3.5	9.3 (-1.5)	11.2	9.8 (-0.9)	11.0
Never married	81.4 (16.2)	46.8	8.9 (-1.0)	7.7	1.6 (0.0)	1.6
Employment, % ^# (AR)
Employed	86.2 (-4.1)	91.9	95.7 (2.2)	93.6	50.6 (8.9)	32.2
Not employed	6.5 (2.3)	4.2	1.9 (0.0)	1.9	1.5 (3.5)	0.2
Not in labour force	7.4 (3.3)	4.0	2.4 (-2.7)	4.5	47.9 (-9.5)	67.6
Education mean, (SE) ‡
Number of years to highest qualification	14.1 (0.04)	14.7 (0.10)***	14.7 (0.07)	14.9 (0.10)	14.4 (0.08)*	14.6 (0.13)
	Females
Age Groups	20s		40s		60s
Wave	W1	W2	W1	W2	W1	W2
Marital status, % ^# (AR)
Married/de facto	29.1 (-13.2)	56.7	77.4 (1.3)	75.2	69.5 (1.3)	66.8
Sep/div/widowed	1.8 (-4.8)	5.7	15.6 (-1.8)	18.2	27.4 (-1.5)	30.3
Never married	69.1 (8.2)	37.5	7.0 (-0.4)	6.6	3.1 (0.3)	2.9
Employment, % ^# (AR)
Employed	86.1 (-0.3)	86.5	86.1 (-0.3)	86.5	33.3 (7.1)	19.7
Not employed	2.5 (0.7)	2.1	2.5 (0.7)	2.1	0.7 (2.1)	0.1
Not in labour force	10.6 (-0.9)	11.7	11.4 (0.0)	11.4	66.1 (-7.3)	80.2
Education mean, (SE) ‡
Number of years to highest qualification	14.4 (0.05)	15.1 (0.12)***	14.3 (0.06)	14.6 (0.12)	13.5 (0.08)	13.8 (0.18)

^# Percentages are within gender for age group categories
AR = Adjusted residuals; AR > 2 or < - 2 indicates a significant difference between Wave1 and Wave 2 for the respective group; only one AR is reported for each comparison between W1 and W2 which is located in the W1 column.
‡ significance test = One way ANOVA, * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001.

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