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Table 2 Estimates from joinpoint analyses of age-standardized suicide rates for men and women in Norway, 1969–2012

From: Long-term trends of suicide by choice of method in Norway: a joinpoint regression analysis of data from 1969 to 2012

  

Joinpoint analysesa: 1969–2012

 

Average Annual ASR (1969–2012)

Trend 1

Trend 2

Trend 3

Full range

 

Years

APC

Years

APC

Years

APC

AAPC (95 % CI)

P value

Male

22.9

1969–1989

3.1*

1989–1994

−5.6

1994–2012

−1.2*

0.3 (−0.5 to 1.0)

0.481

Female

8.2

1969–1988

4.0*

1988–1995

−5.5*

1995–2012

0.1

0.9 (−0.0 to 1.8)

0.057

  1. Abbreviation: ASR age-standardized rate, APC annual percentage change, AAPC average annual percentage change
  2. aJoinpoint Regression Program version 4.2.0.1 (National Cancer Institute/US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md). The annual percentage change and the average annual percentage change are based on rates that were age-standardized to the 2011 Norwegian census population
  3. *The annual % change (APC) is statistically significantly different from zero (P < .05)