Key Health Data for the West Midlands 2004
Table 2.11: Variation in suicide rates in young people across the West Midlands
Directly Standardised Rates for Suicide and
Undetermined Injury, Aged 15-34, 1998-2002
| 95% Confidence interval | 95% Confidence interval | |||||
| Local Authority | Male | Lower limit | Upper limit | Female | Lower limit | Upper limit |
| South Shropshire | 38.23 | 30.62 | 51.73 | 9.03 | 6.52 | 16.49 |
| Cannock Chase | 29.97 | 24.88 | 37.09 | 5.82 | 4.01 | 9.71 |
| Wolverhampton | 28.48 | 25.48 | 32.21 | 5.43 | 3.94 | 7.90 |
| Stoke-on-Trent UA | 28.05 | 24.77 | 32.11 | 5.58 | 4.33 | 7.59 |
| North Shropshire | 23.46 | 18.57 | 31.81 | 6.69 | 4.68 | 12.66 |
| Wyre Forest | 29.68 | 24.27 | 37.30 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Tamworth | 21.20 | 16.75 | 28.22 | 7.43 | 5.33 | 12.50 |
| Stratford on Avon | 26.65 | 22.09 | 33.47 | 1.69 | 0.65 | 6.56 |
| County of Herefordshire UA | 21.87 | 18.24 | 26.93 | 5.48 | 3.98 | 8.27 |
| Bromsgrove | 24.28 | 19.91 | 30.92 | 2.87 | 1.56 | 9.02 |
| Nuneaton & Bedworth | 21.74 | 17.99 | 27.08 | 5.00 | 3.47 | 8.27 |
| Telford & Wrekin UA | 21.91 | 18.57 | 26.44 | 4.54 | 2.93 | 7.72 |
| Dudley | 21.38 | 18.91 | 24.51 | 4.20 | 3.02 | 6.22 |
| Stafford | 18.06 | 14.42 | 23.49 | 7.00 | 4.79 | 11.37 |
| Warwick | 15.53 | 12.17 | 20.55 | 9.45 | 7.07 | 13.52 |
| Staffordshire Moorlands | 13.56 | 9.92 | 19.76 | 11.23 | 8.87 | 15.63 |
| Birmingham | 20.89 | 19.29 | 22.68 | 3.77 | 2.99 | 4.81 |
| Bridgnorth | 15.99 | 10.62 | 25.97 | 8.24 | 5.39 | 16.69 |
| Walsall | 21.54 | 18.99 | 24.82 | 2.52 | 1.61 | 4.47 |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | 21.46 | 17.54 | 27.10 | 2.59 | 1.15 | 6.87 |
| Lichfield | 21.36 | 17.16 | 27.98 | 1.88 | 0.68 | 7.49 |
| Worcester | 18.01 | 13.69 | 24.69 | 5.16 | 3.17 | 9.42 |
| Oswestry | 22.99 | 16.64 | 35.52 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Rugby | 20.87 | 16.58 | 27.62 | 1.81 | 0.46 | 8.13 |
| Shrewsbury & Atcham | 21.96 | 17.14 | 29.28 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Malvern Hills | 11.43 | 7.83 | 19.13 | 10.29 | 7.25 | 17.67 |
| Redditch | 18.63 | 13.72 | 26.55 | 2.10 | 0.38 | 10.19 |
| Sandwell | 15.70 | 13.15 | 19.04 | 4.63 | 3.38 | 6.65 |
| East Staffordshire | 18.62 | 14.39 | 25.05 | 1.23 | 0.19 | 6.08 |
| Coventry | 14.52 | 12.02 | 17.75 | 4.10 | 2.94 | 6.02 |
| South Staffordshire | 15.62 | 12.06 | 21.52 | 2.78 | 1.50 | 6.58 |
| Wychavon | 15.03 | 11.44 | 20.96 | 3.21 | 2.13 | 6.41 |
| Solihull | 11.41 | 8.94 | 15.17 | 2.26 | 1.10 | 5.08 |
| North Warwickshire | 8.57 | 4.94 | 17.37 | 2.07 | 1.44 | 4.99 |
| West Midlands | 21.88 | 21.17 | 22.63 | 4.52 | 4.17 | 4.93 |
| England | 20.75 | 20.53 | 20.96 | 5.20 | 5.05 | 5.36 |
| SOURCES: ONS PHO annual death extracts, ONS Mid-year population estimates | |||||||||
| NOTES: | |||||||||
| 1. ICD10 codes X60-X84, Y10-Y34 excl. Y33.9; ICD 9 codes 950-959, 980-989 (excluding 9888) | |||||||||
| 2. Rates are standardised using the European Standard Population | |||||||||
| 3. Based on year of death not year of registration | |||||||||
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