Reviewing the revisions: what are the Australian Bureau of Statistics suicide figures really telling us?

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Sveticic, Jerneja
McPhedran, Samara
De Leo, Diego
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Stephen Leeder

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2013
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For several years, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has cautioned data users of likely underreporting of suicide statistics due to delays in coronial processes and (since 2006) exclusive reliance on the National Coronial Information System, which often contains incomplete information on cause of death.1 In 2009, the ABS introduced data revision processes that allowed additional information received to be added in two rounds of revisions at 12 and 24 months after the initial processing of coroner-certified deaths. This assisted coders in assigning more specific causes of death, thereby replacing the previous default “accident” category for ambiguous cases.

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Medical Journal of Australia

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198

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9

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Sveticic J, McPhedran S and De Leo D. Reviewing the revisions: what are the Australian Bureau of Statistics suicide figures really telling us? Med J Aust 2013; 198 (9): 478. © Copyright 2013 The Medical Journal of Australia – reproduced with permission.

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