Sensitivity analysis estimates of the relative risk of suicide among the unemployed compared with the employed controlling for mental illness, using the crude relative risk estimate of 2.59 for 25–64 year old men as the starting point
| Prevalence of mental illness in the total population | 10% | 20% | 30% | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RR of suicide for mentally ill compared with non-ill | 5 | 20 | 50 | 5 | 20 | 50 | 5 | 20 | 50 |
| RR, relative risk. Modelling was based on the cohort of 25–64 year old men with complete data (that is, those represented in table 3). Of this cohort, 519195 were employed (168 suicide deaths during follow up), 39312 were unemployed (33), and 90243 were not in the labour force (84). | |||||||||
| RR of mental illness for unemployed compared with employed = 1.25 | 2.43 | 2.24 | 2.15 | 2.35 | 2.17 | 2.12 | 2.29 | 2.14 | 1.96 |
| RR of mental illness for unemployed compared with employed = 1.5 | 2.13 | 1.98 | 1.85 | 2.16 | 1.88 | 1.79 | 2.07 | 1.83 | 1.77 |
| RR of mental illness for unemployed compared with employed = 2.0 | 1.85 | 1.64 | 1.45 | 1.89 | 1.49 | 1.38 | 1.76 | 1.43 | 1.35 |