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1999 YRBS High School Survey

Oregon Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)
1999 High School

Weighted Column Percents | Counts

Q29. During the past 12 months, did you ever seriously consider attempting suicide?
Weighted Column Percents

TOTAL Grade
9th 10th 11th 12th
TOTAL 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Yes 16.0 17.4 17.5 15.2 13.3
No 84.0 82.6 82.5 84.8 86.7
Female Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Yes 20.8 23.0 23.5 19.4 15.9
No 79.2 77.0 76.5 80.6 84.1
Male Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Yes 11.1 11.1 11.5 10.9 10.8
No 88.9 88.9 88.5 89.1 89.2


Q29. During the past 12 months, did you ever seriously consider attempting suicide?
Counts

TOTAL Grade
9th 10th 11th 12th
TOTAL 22,913 7,002 6,070 6,380 3,461
Yes 3,730 1,264 1,057 968 441
No 19,108 5,712 4,994 5,393 3,009
Refused/Unknown 75 26 19 19 11
Female Total 11,597 3,632 3,016 3,218 1,731
Yes 2,459 868 700 623 268
No 9,107 2,754 2,309 2,586 1,458
Refused/Unknown 31 10 7 9 5
Male Total 11,316 3,370 3,054 3,162 1,730
Yes 1,271 396 357 345 173
No 10,001 2,958 2,685 2,807 1,551
Refused/Unknown 44 16 12 10 6