Written answers
Tuesday, 4 October 2005
Department of Health and Children
Suicide Incidence
9:00 pm
Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 267: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of deaths and rates per 100,000 population for suicide by HSE regional areas and county for the years 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003. [26583/05]
Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Mortality data, including principal causes of death, are collected by the Central Statistics Office through the death registration system. Place of residence is coded to the level of county and county borough. The information requested by the Deputy in respect of suicide by county for 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 is as follows:
Suicide and Self-Inflicted Injury Number of Deaths and Rate per 100,000 population, 2000-03. | ||||||||
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | |||||
County/Area | Cases | Rate* | Cases | Rate* | Cases | Rate* | Cases | Rate* |
Carlow | 2 | 4.53 | 8 | 17.77 | 3 | 6.52 | 6 | 12.79 |
Cavan | 7 | 12.75 | 9 | 16.17 | 10 | 17.68 | 8 | 13.96 |
Clare | 8 | 8.05 | 13 | 12.85 | 16 | 15.49 | 13 | 12.36 |
Cork | 67 | 15.39 | 100 | 22.68 | 62 | 13.84 | 64 | 14.1 |
Donegal | 13 | 9.7 | 15 | 11.06 | 20 | 14.54 | 14 | 10.05 |
Dublin | 115 | 10.52 | 120 | 10.85 | 103 | 9.17 | 111 | 9.76 |
Galway | 20 | 9.97 | 23 | 11.25 | 26 | 12.44 | 21 | 9.85 |
Kerry | 20 | 15.45 | 20 | 15.29 | 13 | 9.81 | 9 | 6.72 |
Kildare | 20 | 13.09 | 12 | 7.59 | 21 | 12.81 | 18 | 10.61 |
Kilkenny | 17 | 21.78 | 15 | 18.97 | 11 | 13.69 | 11 | 13.51 |
Laois | 6 | 10.65 | 7 | 12.18 | 6 | 10.21 | 4 | 6.67 |
Leitrim | 4 | 15.77 | 6 | 23.49 | 7 | 27.13 | 3 | 11.54 |
Limerick | 32 | 18.76 | 16 | 9.27 | 30 | 17.11 | 24 | 13.52 |
Longford | 3 | 9.82 | 6 | 19.5 | 4 | 12.87 | 2 | 6.39 |
Louth | 13 | 13.3 | 7 | 7.03 | 14 | 13.75 | 16 | 15.41 |
Mayo | 17 | 14.83 | 17 | 14.68 | 18 | 15.33 | 10 | 8.42 |
Meath | 11 | 8.82 | 19 | 14.72 | 19 | 14.18 | 11 | 7.93 |
Monaghan | 11 | 21.24 | 2 | 3.84 | 4 | 7.61 | 8 | 15.11 |
Offaly | 18 | 29.2 | 12 | 19.18 | 11 | 17.28 | 7 | 10.83 |
Roscommon | 6 | 11.37 | 5 | 9.4 | 4 | 7.44 | 3 | 5.53 |
Sligo | 3 | 5.26 | 10 | 17.39 | 4 | 6.87 | 7 | 11.91 |
Tipperary NR | 9 | 15.11 | 10 | 16.61 | 11 | 18.03 | 14 | 22.69 |
Tipperary SR | 11 | 14.22 | 13 | 16.64 | 11 | 13.9 | 12 | 15.01 |
Waterford | 12 | 12.19 | 17 | 17.03 | 12 | 11.82 | 8 | 7.77 |
Westmeath | 9 | 13.16 | 9 | 12.86 | 6 | 8.35 | 6 | 8.15 |
Wexford | 23 | 20.62 | 19 | 16.68 | 17 | 14.58 | 23 | 19.31 |
Wicklow | 9 | 8.2 | 9 | 8.03 | 15 | 13.08 | 11 | 9.39 |
Ireland | 486 | 12.82 | 519 | 13.49 | 478 | 12.2 | 444 | 11.16 |
* Rate per 100,000 population. |
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