Table 2 Proportion of suicides that used work-related means to suicide, within categories classified as having and not having access to these lethal means of suicide, 2001 to 2012, males, Australia
Occupations without access | Occupations with access to firearms | Occupations with access to medicine and drugs | Occupations with access to carbon monoxide | Occupations with access to poisons | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Males (n = 8600) | n = 6475 | n = 576 | n = 153 | n = 1084 | n = 312 |
Firearms | 7.17 | 30.38 | 6.54 | 7.56 | 13.14 |
Medicine and drugs | 4.51 | 3.30 | 35.29 | 4.06 | 6.09 |
Carbon monoxide poisoning | 16.86 | 12.85 | 9.15 | 20.30 | 18.59 |
Poisons | 5.08 | 2.08 | 2.61 | 4.24 | 1.60 |
Hanging | 50.32 | 38.72 | 27.45 | 51.11 | 51.28 |
Driving/hit by vehicle | 2.50 | 1.39 | 4.58 | 2.03 | 1.92 |
Jumping | 3.92 | 0.87 | 6.54 | 1.75 | 1.92 |
Drowning | 1.16 | 0.69 | 0.65 | 1.11 | 0.64 |
Other | 8.48 | 9.72 | 7.19 | 7.84 | 4.81 |