Household Survey of Pesticide Practice, Deliberate Self-Harm, and Suicide in the Sundarban Region of West Bengal, India

Table 4

Annual overall and pesticide-related DSH and suicide rates per 100,000 population.

Items	All means (including Pesticide)				Pesticide
	Female	Male	Total	Female	Male	Total
Population	5182	5445	10627	5182	5445	10627
DSH (𝑛)*	94	42	136	51	33	84
Rate**	362.8	154.3	256.0	196.8	121.2	158.1
(CI)***	(293.3–443.8)	(111.2–208.5)	(215.0–302.4)	(146.6–258.7)	(83.5–170.2)	(126.2–195.5)
Suicide (𝑛)*	25	22	47	23	16	39
Rate**	96.5	80.8	88.4	88.8	58.8	73.4
(CI)***	(62.5–142.4)	(50.7–122.3)	(65.0–117.6)	(56.3–133.2)	(33.6–95.4)	(52.2–100.3)

∗n = number of events in 5 years. ∗∗Rate is calculated per year. ∗∗∗The confidence interval was set at 95.0%.