Prevalence of hearing difficulty and tinnitus by age and sex
| Difficulty in hearing* | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intermediate | Severe | Tinnitus most or all of the time | ||||
| No. | %† | No. | %† | No. | %† | |
| *Categories as defined in text. | ||||||
| †Denominators were all subjects in the relevant age bands with non-missing data for the variable in question. | ||||||
| ‡Includes a few men and women who were 64 when the mailing lists were assembled but 65 when the questionnaire was returned. | ||||||
| Men | ||||||
| 16–24 | 2 | <1 | 3 | <1 | 9 | 1 |
| 25–34 | 6 | <1 | 9 | 1 | 32 | 2 |
| 35–44 | 34 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 61 | 4 |
| 45–54 | 49 | 4 | 32 | 2 | 104 | 7 |
| 55–64‡ | 61 | 6 | 78 | 8 | 154 | 13 |
| All | 152 | 3 | 133 | 2 | 360 | 6 |
| Women | ||||||
| 16–24 | 1 | <1 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 2 |
| 25–34 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 18 | 1 |
| 35–44 | 10 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 35 | 3 |
| 45–54 | 12 | 1 | 25 | 3 | 49 | 4 |
| 55–64‡ | 23 | 3 | 28 | 4 | 49 | 5 |
| All | 54 | 1 | 77 | 2 | 167 | 3 |