To incorporate the variation in costs among states into our analysis, we began with publicly available age‐ and gender‐specific numbers of fatal and nonfatal suicide‐related injuries by state for 2007 (CDC, 2015a). This is the latest year for which state‐level counts of deaths by suicide by age and sex are reported without restriction. We then updated our results to 2013 by multiplying these data by the national ratio of suicides and intentional self‐inflicted injuries in 2013 to the number in 2007 from WISQARS (CDC, 2015a).
