[PW] Re: ?suicide rate by city

[SHORE,J]

John,

You can narrow it down to County on the NJ Center for 
Health Statistics (Home is 
http://www.state.nj.us/health/chs/index.html -- Stats are 
at http://njshad.doh.state.nj.us/death1119lev.html )

Of course, you'll have to know that Atlantic City is in 
Atlantic County (since my alma mater is 20 minutes away, I 
know that). The 2003 stats show a 6.8 rate for the state 
as a whole, 12.9 rate for Atlantic county. Which would 
seem to support the hypothesis until you note that Camden 
county has a 12.8 rate.

A little more searching and I found 
http://www.nj.gov/health/chs/deathchar9903.htm
1999-2003 Municipality Level Deaths by Selected 
Characteristics.
Those statistics break the counties into municipalities so 
you can see that Atlantic City has 570 deaths for 2003 of 
which 6 were suicides. Comparing that to Camden county, 
which borders Philadelphia, you find 700 deaths in Camden 
of which 6 are suicides and 794 deaths in Cherry Hill of 
which 12 were suicides. Looks to me like Cherry Hill is 
the worse place to live.

Other states may provide similar stats for their state.

Happy hunting,
J.

J. Shore
Systems Librarian - MEDLINE Quality Assurance
National Library of Medicine
Bethesda, MD, USA

shorej at cablespeed.com

P.S. since Kay already plugged MEDLINE, I won't repeat.


On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:26:15 -0400
  John Henderson <jhenderson at ithaca.edu> wrote:
> I'm looking for a table of suicide rates by US city. The 
>closest I can 
> find is a breakdown by state, found in the CDC's 
>National Vital 
> Statistics Report: Deaths, Final Data for 2003, issued 
>April 19, 2006.
> 
> Context. Is there a corolation between casino gambling 
>and high suicide 
> rates? This is not necessarily backed up by Table 29. 
>"Number of deaths, 
> death rates, and age-adjusted death rates for major 
>causes of death for 
> the United States, and each State...." Nevada (19.4) is 
>well above the 
> national average (10.8), but finishes 3rd behind Wyoming 
>and Montana. 
> New Jersey (6.8) has one of the lowest suicide rates in 
>the country.
> 
> John Henderson
> Ithaca College Library
> jhenderson at ithaca.edu
> 
> 
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