Preliminary spatiotemporal analysis of the association between socio-environmental factors and suicide

Table 3 Pearson correlations between socio-environmental factors and suicide for both male (upper value) and females (lower value, italics)^§

	ASM	RF	MinT	MaxT	IRSAD	IRSD	IER	IEO	PIP	UER	PPLII
RF	0.017 0.053**	1.000
MinT	0.073** 0.034	0.449**	1.000
MaxT	0.076** 0.013	0.163**	0.848**	1.000
IRSAD	-0.147 -0.061	-0.007	0.029	0.017	1.000
IRSD	-0.296 -0.094	-0.125**	-0.233**	-0.196**	0.606**	1.000
IER	-0.091 -0.055	-0.022	0.104**	0.108**	0.901**	0.361**	1.000
IEO	-0.141** -0.034	0.090**	-0.053**	-0.140**	0.772**	0.628**	0.445**	1.000
PIP	0.163 0.069	0.091 0.075	0.257 0.250	0.280 0.282	-0.207 -0.189	-0.603 -0.593	-0.047* -0.015	-0.277 -0.288	1.000
UER	0.001 0.037	0.133 0.115	-0.019 -0.018	-0.221 -0.219	-0.387 -0.310	-0.150 -0.155	-0.434 -0.314	-0.067 -0.084	-0.066 -0.107	1.000
PPLII	0.232 0.059	0.120** 0.015	-0.019 -0.026	-0.122 -0.067	-0.677 -0.502	-0.630 -0.516	-0.625 -0.338	-0.428 -0.561	0.132** 0.030	0.493 0.251	1.000
PPLEL	0.153 0.061	-0.071** -0.012	-0.003 0.009	0.114 0.068	-0.797 -0.786	-0.615 -0.657	-0.699 -0.672	-0.672 -0.640	0.357 0.376	0.068 0.054	0.557 0.478

*Significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed); **Significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
^§Note: ASM (age-standard mortality rates); RF (rainfall); MinT (minimum temperature); MaxT (max temperature); IRSAD (Index of Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage); IRSD (Index of Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage); IER (Index of Economic Resources); IEO (Index of Education and Occupation); PIP (proportion of Indigenous population); UER (unemployment rate); PPLII (proportion of population with low individual income); PPLEL (proportion of population with low educational level).

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