Table 1 Person years of observation (PYO) and selected causes of death in
population of Victoria, Australia, and cohort of young offenders, 1988-99
|
|
|
No of deaths
|
|
|
|
Cause specific
*
|
Age group (years)
|
PYO
|
All cause
|
Drug related
|
Non-intentional injury
|
Suicide
|
Offender cohort
|
|
|
|
|
|
Male:
|
|
|
|
|
|
 14
|
71.7
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
15-19
|
4840.7
|
33
|
16
|
9
|
6
|
20-24
|
5282.5
|
52
|
24
|
9
|
16
|
 25
|
518.8
|
2
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
Female:
|
|
|
|
|
|
14
|
7.0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
15-19
|
311.7
|
7
|
4
|
1
|
1
|
20-24
|
275.5
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
25
|
25.0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
Total
|
11 333.0
|
96
|
44 (46%)
|
22 (23%)
|
23 (24%)
|
Victorian population
|
|
|
|
|
|
Male:
|
|
|
|
|
|
14
|
670 718
|
146
|
1
|
48
|
14
|
15-19
|
1 667 791
|
1080
|
69
|
477
|
236
|
20-24
|
873 365
|
878
|
156
|
310
|
231
|
25
|
109 413
|
131
|
38
|
29
|
40
|
Female:
|
|
|
|
|
|
14
|
274 589
|
51
|
1
|
15
|
4
|
15-19
|
1 584 927
|
428
|
33
|
143
|
70
|
20-24
|
845 754
|
294
|
50
|
84
|
57
|
25
|
107 117
|
43
|
8
|
5
|
10
|
Total
|
2 812 387
|
3051
|
356 (12%)
|
1111 (36%)
|
662 (22%)
|
|
* Cause specific grouping of deaths are mutually exclusive. Other causes of
death in offender cohort (making up the 100% of all cause mortality) were:
non-medical—homicide (one male, one female), legal intervention (one
male); medical—diseases of circulatory system (one male), infectious and
parasitic diseases (one male), neoplasms (one male), ill defined conditions
(one male).