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Suicide Incidence.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 26 October 2005

Wednesday, 26 October 2005

Questions (76)

Dan Neville

Question:

150 Mr. Neville asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of deaths and rates per 100,000 population for suicide by Health Service Executive regional areas and county for the years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. [30887/05]

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Written answers

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 relation to suicide by county for the years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 is set out in the following table. Suicide and self-inflicted injury.

Number of deaths and rate per 100,000 population — 2000-2004

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

County/Area

Cases

Rate*

Cases

Rate*

Cases

Rate*

Cases

Rate*

Cases

Rate*

Carlow

2

4.53

8

17.77

3

6.52

6

12.79

6

12.53

Cavan

7

12.75

9

16.17

10

17.68

8

13.96

9

15.46

Clare

8

8.05

13

12.85

16

15.49

13

12.36

14

13.04

Cork

67

15.39

100

22.68

62

13.84

64

14.10

69

15.00

Donegal

13

9.70

15

11.06

20

14.54

14

10.05

18

12.75

Dublin

115

10.52

120

10.85

103

9.17

111

9.76

104

9.04

Galway

20

9.97

23

11.25

26

12.44

21

9.85

15

6.89

Kerry

20

15.45

20

15.29

13

9.81

9

6.72

21

15.47

Kildare

20

13.09

12

7.59

21

12.81

18

10.61

13

7.40

Kilkenny

17

21.78

15

18.97

11

13.69

11

13.51

10

12.11

Laois

6

10.65

7

12.18

6

10.21

4

6.67

3

4.90

Leitrim

4

15.77

6

23.49

7

27.13

3

11.54

4

15.25

Limerick

32

18.76

16

9.27

30

17.11

24

13.52

25

13.90

Longford

3

9.82

6

19.50

4

12.87

2

6.39

5

15.82

Louth

13

13.3

7

7.03

14

13.75

16

15.41

12

11.33

Mayo

17

14.83

17

14.68

18

15.33

10

8.42

11

9.14

Meath

11

8.82

19

14.72

19

14.18

11

7.93

24

16.68

Monaghan

11

21.24

2

3.84

4

7.61

8

15.11

8

14.99

Offaly

18

29.20

12

19.18

11

17.28

7

10.83

12

18.26

Roscommon

6

11.37

5

9.40

4

7.44

3

5.53

1

1.83

Sligo

3

5.26

10

17.39

4

6.87

7

11.91

10

16.85

Tipperary NR

9

15.11

10

16.61

11

18.03

14

22.69

11

17.61

Tipperary SR

11

14.22

13

16.64

11

13.90

12

15.01

6

7.42

Waterford

12

12.19

17

17.03

12

11.82

8

7.77

16

15.30

Westmeath

9

13.16

9

12.86

6

8.35

6

8.15

7

9.28

Wexford

23

20.62

19

16.68

17

14.58

23

19.31

11

9.03

Wicklow

9

8.20

9

8.03

15

13.08

11

9.39

12

10.03

Ireland

486

12.82

519

13.49

478

12.20

444

11.16

457

11.30

* Rate per 100,000 population.

Source: Central Statistics Office.

Data for 2004 are provisional and based on year of registration.

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