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Table 4 Descriptive characteristics of victim in self-inflicted cases, NVDRS, 2009–2018

From: An epidemiological study of unintentional pediatric firearm fatalities in the USA, 2009–2018

 

Victim age group

< 5 years n (%)a

5–9 years n (%)a

10–14 years n (%)a

Total n (%)a

Sex

    

 Male

85 (90.4)

*

*

135 (87.1)

 Female

9 (9.6)

*

*

20 (12.9)

Victim race

    

 White

44 (46.8)

9 (36.0)

18 (50.0)

71 (45.8)

 Black or African American

40 (42.6)

15 (60.0)

14 (38.9)

69 (44.5)

 Two or more races

6 (6.4)

*

*

8 (5.2)

 Other/unspecifiedb

*

1 (4.0)

*

7 (4.5)

Victim ethnicity

    

 Not Hispanic

*

24 (100.0)

*

148 (96.7)

 Hispanic

*

0 (0.0)

*

5 (3.3)

 Unknownc

0

1

1

2

Total (row %)a

94 (60.6)

25 (16.1)

36 (23.2)

155 (100.0)

  1. *Indicates cell frequency masked to suppress small cells sizes
  2. aColumn and row percentages may not total 100.0% due to rounding or masked cell values
  3. bOther/Unspecified includes American Indian or Alaska Native and Asian/Pacific Islander
  4. cUnknown values were omitted from the denominator when calculating percentages
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