Men who have died of suicide who worked on building sites/in the construction industry 2016 to 2021

​FOI Ref: FOI/2021/3247

You asked

Please supply the following information:

1. The number of men who have died by suicide from the years 2016 until present who worked/were working on building sites/in the construction industry.

2. The number of attempted suicides of male employees who have died by suicide from the years 2016 until present who have worked/work on building sites/in the construction industry.

3. The number of men who do not identify as heterosexual/cis gender who have died by suicided from the years 2016 until present who worked/were working on building sites/in the construction industry.

4. The number of non-White men who have died by suicide from the years 2016 until present who worked/were working on building sites/in the construction industry.

Please provide the information in the form of an Excel document.

We said

​Thank you for your enquiry.

For suicides involving occupation, please see the following publication: Suicide by occupation, England and Wales, 2011 to 2019 registrations.

Data on occupation is coded using the Standard Occupation Classification (SOC 2010). In all, there are 9 major groups of occupations (for example, skilled trades occupations); 25 sub-major groups (for example, skilled construction and building trades); 90 minor groups (for example, building finishing trades); and more than 350 individual occupations (for example, painters and decorators). Full lists of occupations used in the analysis are reported in the accompanying data tables, and descriptions of these can be found in ONS Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) Hierarchy. The report is structured so that it describes larger categories of occupations before moving on to describe risk in specific occupations.

The number of suicides for England and Wales for 1981 to 2020 are available in the Suicides in England and Wales publication. This publication includes numbers and rates of suicide by age, sex and area of usual residence. The excel reference tables are available to access directly here.

We also produce provisional suicide data for England on a quarterly basis, with the most recent update including deaths that were registered from Quarter 1 (January to March) to Quarter 3 (July to September) 2021.

Please note, suspected suicide deaths are investigated by a coroner in what's known as an inquest. The amount of time it takes to hold an inquest causes a delay between the date of death and the date of death registration, referred to as a registration delay. Registration delays for deaths caused by suicide tend to be 5 to 6 months on average. More information about the impact of registration delays is available here.

We only hold mortality data for England and Wales based on the information collected at death registration.

Ethnicity or sexual orientation are not collected on the death certificate; therefore, we do not hold this information in our death registration statistics.

We do not hold information on self-harm. NHS Digital may be better placed to help you obtain this information.

If you wish to discuss your enquiry further, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk.