Need Statistics On Child Gun Deaths

[telomerase]

Help! I need figures on child deaths due to gun accidents vs. other factors. This is for an article in the local paper, I need to finish it by the end of the week.

Thanks for any links, I'm stuck in the woods on dialup today so my speed of surfing pdf-heavy statistics sites is limited

 

[hso]

CDC has the data, but you need to parse by age group.

http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10_sy.html

 

[csmkersh]

What's the article's definition of a child? Is it reasonable, say age 10, or, like Brady, age 23?

From CDC WISQARS, in 4 year brackets to age 14. See attachment for table.

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[csmkersh]

Grumble, grumble.

Table in first post is unintentional/accidents. This table is homicides. Remember, homicides does not automatically equal murder.


Forgot to add, data is 2005, which is the most current CDC is releasing.

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[Librarian]

See also the 'leading causes of death', for example

and

link to page

 

[csmkersh]

For those who can't FTP the site, here's the 10 leading causes of death for 2005. Note that accidental death is the leading cause from 1 to 45 years. Homiced ranks second for 15-24 year olds and suicidse for 25-44 year olds.

Oh, and you'll need Acrobat Reader to open the attachment.

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[telomerase]

Thanks a lot guys!