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This headline is from the Independent Online claiming that there are certain jobs that people have that can have a higher suicide risk amongst men and women. This research was done by the Office for National Statistics regarding the Public Health Sector based on an analysis of the 2015 registered suicide rates in England. The sub-headline claims that suicide risk amongst care workers of both genders is almost twice the national average. The national average is 10.8 per 100,000 which I have taken from the National Statistics link that is attached to the article. However it is not made clear on the website where the national rate is and the article has not explicitly quoted it anywhere. This rate is an important number to include in this article, therefore there is missing data from the article that should be there.
However by calculating the statistics claiming that care workers facing a suicide risk is almost twice the national average is correct. By looking on the National Statistics website you can see that in care workers from both genders it is calculated to around 20 per 100,000 which were nearly twice as much as the national average. Everything else in the article is very accurate as it is directly quoted from the National Statistics website and matches up with the numbers on their graphs. The headline and sub headline are accurate and there isn’t anything in them that could mislead anyone when reading.