Epidemiological comparisons of age–gender profiles between completed suicide victims reported in newspapers (excluding attempted suicides) and suicide death statistics from official sources, N (%)
| Male | China suicides n=7465 | Guangzhou newspapers n=75 | Hong Kong suicides n=574 | Hong Kong newspapers n=284 | Taiwan suicides n=3088 | Taiwan newspapers n=440 |
| <15 | 0.9% | 1.3% | 0% | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.7% |
| 15–24 | 7.3% | 30.7% | 9.1% | 11.3% | 5.2% | 9.8% |
| 25–39 | 23.5% | 29.3% | 21.6% | 27.8% | 31.4% | 38.9% |
| 40–59 | 30.4% | 22.7% | 37.5% | 37.0% | 39.3% | 36.8% |
| >60 | 37.8% | 16.0% | 31.9% | 23.6% | 23.9% | 13.9% |
| p Value* | p<0.05 | p<0.05 (=0.03) | p<0.05 | |||
| Female | Suicides n=7361 | Newspaper n=36 | Suicides n=359 | Newspaper n=167 | Suicides n=1318 | Newspaper n=148 |
| <15 | 0.8% | 5.6% | 0.6% | 5.4% | 0.4% | 5.4% |
| 15–24 | 8.7% | 36.1% | 6.4% | 19.2% | 5.7% | 13.5% |
| 25–39 | 28.9% | 38.9% | 31.8% | 37.1% | 27.7% | 44.6% |
| 40–59 | 27.0% | 16.7% | 27.9% | 21.6% | 36.9% | 29.1% |
| >60 | 34.7% | 2.8% | 33.4% | 16.8% | 29.3% | 7.4% |
| 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.