Table 1

Unweighted and weighted averages of O*NET occupational noise scores by 40 NHANES occupation groups

NHANES code	NHANES occupation group	Participants number	O*NET noise average score
NHANES code	NHANES occupation group	Participants number	Unweighted	Weighted^*
1	Executive, administrators and managers	276	2.65	2.64
2	Management-related occupations	117	2.87	2.83
3	Engineers, architects and scientists	119	2.77	2.84
4	Health diagnosing, assessing and treating occupations	106	2.45	2.23
5	Teachers	159	2.50	2.48
6	Writers, artists, entertainers and athletes	65	2.73	2.72
7	Other professional specialty occupations	67	2.48	2.46
8	Technicians and related support occupations	113	3.12	3.16
9	Supervisors and proprietors, sales occupations	43	2.68	2.96
10	Sales representatives, finance, business and commodities ex. retail	70	2.41	2.29
11	Sales workers, retail and personal services	210	2.70	2.85
12	Secretaries, stenographers and typists	114	2.68	2.67
13	Information clerks	56	2.74	2.66
14	Records processing occupations	89	2.80	2.82
15	Material recording, scheduling and distributing clerks	58	3.34	3.37
16	Miscellaneous administrative support occupations	239	2.59	2.50
17	Private household occupations	54	1.80	2.02
18	Protective service occupations	63	3.51	3.63
19	Waiters and waitresses	81	2.84	2.84
20	Cooks	91	2.84	2.84
21	Miscellaneous food preparation and service occupations	78	2.84	2.84
22	Health service occupations	122	2.73	2.58
23	Cleaning and building service occupations	97	3.33	3.91
24	Personal service occupations	100	2.83	2.69
25	Farm operators, managers and supervisors	22	3.25	3.48
26	Farm and nursery workers	65	3.16	3.22
27	Related agricultural, forestry and fishing occupations	48	3.61	4.16
28	Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics and repairers	58	4.34	4.59
29	Other mechanics and repairers	63	3.60	3.91
30	Construction trades	187	3.95	4.23
31	Extractive and precision production occupations	168	4.37	4.63
32	Textile, apparel and furnishings machine operators	46	3.24	3.78
33	Machine operators, assorted materials	107	3.94	4.44
34	Fabricators, assemblers, inspectors and samplers	107	3.63	4.16
35	Motor vehicle operators	123	3.23	3.56
36	Other transportation and material moving occupations	49	4.26	4.75
37	Construction labourers	52	4.09	4.09
38	Labourers, except construction	45	3.93	3.93
39	Freight, stock and material movers, hand	58	3.93	3.93
40	Other helpers, equipment cleaners, hand packagers and labourers	43	3.67	3.73

↵* Weighted average was defined as where i is an individual job title in O*NET Standard Occupation Classification (SOC) and p is the total number of O*NET SOCs classified within the NHANES occupation group.
NHANES, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; O*NET, Occupational Information Network.