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Table 7. Social-economic factors related to male suicide rates in metropolitan, regional and remote areas of Qld, Poisson regression results
Metropolitan Regional Remote
IRR CI low CI high IRR CI low CI high IRR CI low CI high
AB and TSI (% of total pop) 1.12 0.91 1.37 0.89 0.71 1.12 1.41 ** 1.04 1.90
Divorce (% of total pop) 1.10 ** 1.02 1.17 1.14 ** 1.01 1.28 1.30*** 1.11 1.51
Unemployment (% of employed pop) 1.77*** 1.41 2.23 1.22 0.95 1.57 1.98 0.62 6.33
Agricultural employed (% of total employed pop) 0.97 0.85 1.11 1.01 0.94 1.08 1.21*** 1.14 1.28
Overseas born (% of total pop) 1.44 0.93 2.23 1.29 0.97 1.72 0.64 0.33 1.21
Year 12 education (% of total pop) 1.07 0.71 1.61 0.90 0.50 1.62 0.09*** 0.04 0.22
Overseas in the past year (% of total pop) 1.08 ** 1.01 1.16 0.84 0.62 1.14 1.02 0.47 1.21
Hindi (% of total pop) 1.00 0.88 1.14 0.86** 0.74 0.99 0.84 0.53 1.33
Islam (% of total pop) 1.04 0.94 1.16 0.89 0.77 1.02 1.16 0.88 1.53
Christian (% of total pop) 0.21*** 0.11 0.39 0.39 0.11 1.39 1.02 0.98 1.06
Buddhist (% of total pop) 1.05 0.91 1.21 0.99 0.81 1.21 0.79 0.53 1.19
Catholic (% of total pop) 0.51 ** 0.28 0.94 0.57 ** 0.35 0.93 1.40 0.98 2.01
Family with children (couple with a child) (% of total pop) 0.65*** 0.54 0.78 0.55 0.17 1.82 0.30 0.07 1.30
Average income per capita ($ per week) 0.92 0.49 1.74 0.75 0.52 1.09 0.64 0.18 2.30
Expend. on antidepressants per capita ($ per year) 1.23 0.90 1.69 0.92 0.58 1.47 0.55 ** 0.38 0.80
Expend. on other psychotropic drugs per capita ($ per year) 1.46*** 1.17 1.81 0.84 0.57 1.25 1.12 0.58 2.17
Psychiatrist services per 100 persons 1.02 0.85 1.22 1.05 0.95 1.16 0.64 0.35 1.16
GP services per 100 persons 1.00 0.75 1.34 1.01 0.97 1.05 0.43 0.14 1.33
Notes: IRR refers to Incident rate ratio, controlling for year; * p