OBJECTIVE: Study historical series of suicide in Espírito Santo (1980 to 2006) and its stratifications. METHODS: A descriptive, retrospective study based on historical series of events. The registered deaths were included from the System of Information on Mortality per Suicide by residents of Espírito Santo (1980 to 2006). The historical series were put together and the mortality coefficients per suicide were calculated for a certain period. Afterwards, the direct method was used in order to fit death table numbers into a pattern - in this stage, the population number was taken from data published by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics in 2000. So the death tables could be calculated, the Microsoft Excel software was used. The equations of linear tendencies and the statics of adjustment into the model (R² value and p-value of model adequacy) were collected from the Statistical Package for Social. Sciences software. The level of significance adopted was of 5%. RESULTS: The tendency of growth of a death table per suicide in Espírito Santo was 24.9%. Regarding men, 23.8%. The age group between 10 and 14 years and those above 30 until 59 years old had a strong growth tendency. CONCLUSION: Suicidal acts were more common among men. The main age group which may be likely to have a growth in is the one ranging from 30 and 57 years old.
Suicide; suicide; information systems; epidemiology
