Epidemiological comparisons of gender and age profiles between completed suicide victims reported in newspapers (excluding attempted suicides) and suicide death statistics from official sources, N (%)
| China suicides n=14826 | Guangzhou newspapers n=111 | Hong Kong suicides n=933 | Hong Kong newspapers n=451 | Taiwan suicides n=4406 | Taiwan newspapers n=588 | |
| Male | 50.4% | 67.6% | 61.5% | 63.0% | 70.1% | 74.8% |
| Female | 49.6% | 32.4% | 38.5% | 37.0% | 29.9% | 25.2% |
| p Value* | p<0.05 | NS | p<0.05 | |||
| <15 | 0.8% | 2.7% | 0.2% | 2.2% | 0.2% | 1.9% |
| 15–24 | 8.0% | 32.4% | 8.0% | 14.2% | 5.4% | 10.7% |
| 25–39 | 26.2% | 32.4% | 25.5% | 31.3% | 30.3% | 40.3% |
| 40–59 | 28.7% | 20.7% | 33.8% | 31.3% | 38.6% | 34.9% |
| >60 | 36.2% | 11.7% | 32.5% | 21.1% | 25.5% | 12.2% |
| p Value* | p<0.05 | p<0.05 | p<0.05 | |||
* χ2 or Fisher exact tests were used to examine whether there are any differences in proportions between the three places.