Endnotes
1 In this Bulletin, the term “American Indian” is used for CDC’s racial category American Indian/Alaskan Native, and the term “Asian” is used for the racial category Asian/Pacific Islander.2 It is possible that coroners or medical examiners underreport juvenile suicides, particularly those of young juveniles.
3 In five suicides, the race of the victim was unknown. Data on Hispanic ethnicity of suicide victims were not available for the period 1981–98.
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