Table 2 Frequency and percentage of deaths through pharmaceutical poisoning by intent for all Australia and each state or territory, 2001–2013
From: Exploring coronial determination of intent for poisoning-related deaths in Australia, 2001–2013
Location | Intent Classificationa | χ2 (df) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unintentional | Intentional | Undetermined | |||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
All Australia | 9951 | 55.9 | 5331 | 29.9 | 2534 | 14.2 | |
States | |||||||
NSW | 3020 | 57.6 | 1529 | 29.2 | 693 | 13.2 | 404.60 (14)**** |
VIC | 2473 | 56.4 | 1116 | 25.5 | 793 | 18.1 | |
QLD | 1718 | 52.4 | 1178 | 35.9 | 386 | 11.8 | |
SA | 664 | 48.5 | 366 | 26.8 | 338 | 24.7 | |
WA | 1479 | 59.7 | 835 | 33.7 | 165 | 6.7 | |
TAS | 299 | 51.6 | 179 | 30.7 | 102 | 17.6 | |
NT | 121 | 56.0 | 62 | 28.7 | 33 | 15.3 | |
ACT | 177 | 66.3 | 66 | 24.7 | 24 | 9.0 | |