You asked
Please provide the proportion of people lost to suicide that were in a sporting role.
Can you tell me if you break down your statistics to professions that would include those who work in football either as a scholar, player or staff member and weighed I can see the breakdown of these numbers?
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
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.
Please see the following tables, which have been taken from our latest publication: Suicide by occupation, England and Wales. This provides data from 2011 to 2019. The report is structured so that it describes larger categories of occupations before moving on to describe risk in specific occupations
Table 4: Number of suicides for unit group occupations, males and females aged between 20 to 64 years, deaths registered in England, 2011 to 2019 1,2,3,4,5
Male
| SOC unit group | Description | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3441 | Sports players | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| 3442 | Sports coaches, instructors, and officials | 1 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 4 |
| 3443 | Fitness instructors | 5 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
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| SOC unit group | Description | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3441 | Sports players | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3442 | Sports coaches, instructors, and officials | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 3443 | Fitness instructors | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
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.xls .csvNotes
- The National Statistics definition of suicide is given in the 'Guidance' tab.
- Figures are for those aged 20 to 64 years.
- Figures exclude deaths of non-residents and are based on postcode boundaries as of August 2020.
- Occupations defined using the Standard Occupation Classification (v.2010). For information on the classification hierarchy, follow the link: Information on the Standard Occupation Classification.
- Figures are for deaths registered in each calendar year. Due to the length of time it takes to hold an inquest, the deaths presented here may have occurred months, or even years, before they were registered. For an idea on the registration delays typically observed with suicides, please use the link: Information on registration delays.
If this does not meet your needs, we may be able to create a custom output. Information on suicides by occupation for 2011-2019, along with other special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate).
2020 data will be available after the publication of Suicides in UK in September 2021.
Such enquiries would fall outside of the Freedom of Information regime and should be made to: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.