Guidance
Methodology: near to real-time suspected suicide surveillance for England
How the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) puts together the data in its quarterly near to real-time suspected suicide surveillance reports.
Applies to England
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OHID publishes quarterly near to real-time suspected suicide surveillance for England (nRTSSS) statistics.
This document provides an overview of statistical approaches used in these reports, including:
- details of the data set used to produce these statistics
- how monthly suspected suicide rates are calculated
- how quarterly proportions of suspected suicides by method type group are calculated
- a summary of strengths and limitations of this approach to reporting
Updates to this page
Published 30 November 2023
Last updated 24 April 2025
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The methodology has been updated to explain how monthly rates calculations are adjusted to allow for differences in the number of days each month.
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First published.