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Table 3 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, females, Australia

From: Access to means of suicide, occupation and the risk of suicide: a national study over 12 years of coronial data

 

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

Females (n = 1550)

n=1236

n = 46

n = 192

n = 12

n = 64

 Firearms

2.43

17.39

0.52

0.00

3.13

 Medicine and drugs

17.96

8.70

46.35

16.67

17.19

 Carbon monoxide poisoning

14.72

8.70

10.42

50.00

14.06

 Poisons

1.05

4.35

0.52

0.00

1.56

 Hanging

43.04

41.30

27.60

16.67

45.31

 Driving/hit by vehicle

2.51

2.17

1.56

0.00

6.25

 Jumping

7.77

2.17

2.08

0.00

6.25

 Drowning

3.24

4.35

4.17

8.33

3.13

 Other

7.28

10.87

6.77

8.33

3.13

  1. Notes: “Other” methods includes a small number of suicide methods such as cutting, death by immolation, death by electrocution, and missing methods