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

Table 3 Results of decomposition models

Decomposition model	Model 1 ^a		Model 2 ^{a, b}
	Across provinces	Over time	Across provinces	Over time
Divorce rate (per 1000 people)	1.993	1.586**	4.313***	1.582**
Unemployment rate	0.407	−0.040	0.394**	− 0.017
Household equivalent per capita expenditure (per million IRR^c)	0.003**	0.000	0.000	0.000
Urbanization rate	0.018	−0.046	− 0.045	− 0.066
Literacy rate ^d	− 0.358*		− 0.170
Percentage male ^d	−0.564		0.426
Percentage aged 15–24 ^d	1.495**		0.736
Percentage aged 65+ ^d	0.973		1.152**
Ln(population)	−1.131		−0.177
Intercept	20.207		−31.522

***,**,* significant at 1, 5 and 10%, respectively
a. Accounted for time variable and first order autocorrelation
b. Excluding Ilam province from the sample as outlier
c. * 1 USD was around 10,000 Iranian Rial (IRR) in 2010
d. Time-invariant variables. Data for these variables was available for 2006 only

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