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Table 2 Information on spatial clusters of youth suicides and adult suicides

From: Spatial suicide clusters in Australia between 2010 and 2012: a comparison of cluster and non-cluster among young people and adults

No

States/territories

Number of cases

Expected cases

% of casesa

Remoteness

p-value

Youth suicides

1

NSW

11

2

5.7

Major cities/inner regional

0.003

2

QLD

21

5

8.0

Very remote

<0.001

3

VIC

3

0

1.6

Major cities

0.066

4

WA

15

1

10.1

Very remote

<0.001

5

NT

3

0

6.8

Very remote

0.005

Adult suicides

6

NSW

25

9

3.4

Inner regional

0.014

7

NSW

31

14

3.4

Major cities

0.053

8

VIC

26

8

3.5

Major cities

0.001

9

VIC

19

6

3.5

Major cities

0.011

10

WA

22

7

4.3

Remote/very remote

0.003

11

WA

11

3

4.3

Major cities

0.080

12

NT

3

0

3.8

Outer regional

0.024

  1. aProportion of all suicides accounted for by cluster suicides in each state/territory