Posted on Aug 6, 2024
Pentagon report shows what military jobs have highest suicide rates
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Does anyone understand how to apply and understand these rates? This article takes you to the actual report, but I am not sure how the suicide rates listed actually correlates and how I would describe this to my CMDR, for example.
Pentagon report shows what military jobs have highest suicide rates
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Posted 4 mo ago
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If you look at the explanation in the "Overview of Methodology" section of the report, it lays out how the results are calculated and shown.
"A suicide rate is defined as the number of Service members who died by suicide with a specific Primary DoD Occupation Code at the time of death (numerator) divided by the number of all Service members in that same DoD Occupation Code each year, then multiplied by 100,000"
The specialty code was 'normalized' by using the DoD Primary Occupation Code*
So, between 2011 and 2022, there were 758 identified suicides for "Infantry". Based on the conversion index* (page 16), that consists of enlisted USA/USMC "Infantry, General" occupations, USA/USN "Special Forces", and USA/USN/USMC/USAF "Military Training Instructors".
Using the DMDC data, they then calculated the rate based on the ratio of suicides to the number individuals who were in the military with those DOD Occupation Codes.
So 31.28 per 100,000 "Infantry"
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* DoD Occupational Information Collection and Reporting - https://www.esd.whs.mil/portals/54/documents/dd/issuances/dodi/131201p.pdf
* Conversion index from 2001 - https://ntrl.ntis.gov/NTRL/dashboard/searchResults/titleDetail/ADA405208.xhtml#
"A suicide rate is defined as the number of Service members who died by suicide with a specific Primary DoD Occupation Code at the time of death (numerator) divided by the number of all Service members in that same DoD Occupation Code each year, then multiplied by 100,000"
The specialty code was 'normalized' by using the DoD Primary Occupation Code*
So, between 2011 and 2022, there were 758 identified suicides for "Infantry". Based on the conversion index* (page 16), that consists of enlisted USA/USMC "Infantry, General" occupations, USA/USN "Special Forces", and USA/USN/USMC/USAF "Military Training Instructors".
Using the DMDC data, they then calculated the rate based on the ratio of suicides to the number individuals who were in the military with those DOD Occupation Codes.
So 31.28 per 100,000 "Infantry"
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* DoD Occupational Information Collection and Reporting - https://www.esd.whs.mil/portals/54/documents/dd/issuances/dodi/131201p.pdf
* Conversion index from 2001 - https://ntrl.ntis.gov/NTRL/dashboard/searchResults/titleDetail/ADA405208.xhtml#
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I saw that and showed it to others, but we still didn't understand. Thanks for the help sir!
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1LT (Join to see) - What is it in the data that is eluding you. What I get from the article is the military's crazy attempt to align MOS with suicide rates. It's easy to do that but it cannot even start to address the issue as there are to many variables to blame something like MOS. Using ones MOS is like saying I lost the house key somewhere in Texas.
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