Socio-environmental drivers and suicide in Australia: Bayesian spatial analysis

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Summary statistics of suicide and socio-environmental variables at the LGA level

	Mean	SD	Min	Percentiles			Max
				25	50	75
Suicide rate (per 100,000)	14.00	9.350	0.00	10.37	12.97	16.41	168.28
SEIFA	981.94	64.664	613.31	959.41	987.03	1015.63	1162.11
ATSI (%)	5.91	13.222	0.00	0.76	1.72	4.19	90.22
Unemployment rate (%)	8.89	3.756	1.84	6.31	8.43	10.73	41.77
Rainfall (mm)	720.34	376.665	162.43	448.97	655.98	876.92	3464.77
Temperature (°C)	18.10	3.756	8.75	15.65	17.65	19.98	29.61
Humidity (%)	58.74	8.898	28.54	54.13	60.06	64.45	77.81

Note: SEIFA: Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas in each LGA, score 1000 for the national level. ATSI: Proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders among the total population in each LGA. Unemployment rate: Proportion of unemployed population among the total population in each LGA. Suicide rate, SEIFA, ATSI, unemployment rate and rainfall were presented as yearly average values. Temperature and humidity were presented as monthly average values.

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