Socio-demographic and economics factors associated with suicide mortality in Iran, 2001–2010: application of a decomposition model

Table 1 Descriptive statistics for dependent and independent variables

Variables	Mean	SD overall	SD spatial	SD temporal	Min	Max
Suicide per 100,000	5.47	3.76	3.63	1.20	0.99	23.84
Divorce rate	1.12	0.46	0.36	0.30	0.21	2.49
Urbanization, %	63.45	12.07	12.05	2.26	41.50	95.00
Unemployment, %	12.13	3.72	2.62	2.68	4.10	30.68
Annual expenditure per head (10,000 IRR^a)	2382.43	1200.76	480.79	1103.69	566.01	6353.80
Literacy ^b	83.11	4.24	4.31	0	68.03	91.27
Male, % ^b	50.85	0.67	0.68	0	49.73	52.81
Aged 15–24 years, % ^b	25.77	1.31	1.33	0	22.08	28.16
Aged 65+,% ^a	5.19	0.95	0.97	0	2.95	7.30

^a1 USD was around 10,000 Iranian Rial (IRR) in 2010
^bTime-invariant variables. Data for these variables was available for 2006 only

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