Table 1
Level of hearing difficulty, hearing status and prevalence of any hearing difficulty by age group, by sex, household population aged 45 or older, Canada excluding territories, 2008/2009 Table 1
Level of hearing difficulty, hearing status and prevalence of any hearing difficulty by age group, by sex, household population aged 45 or older, Canada excluding territories, 2008/2009

Table 1
Level of hearing difficulty, hearing status and prevalence of any hearing difficulty by age group, by sex, household population aged 45 or older, Canada excluding territories, 2008/2009
Table summary
This table displays the results of Level of hearing difficulty Both sexes, Men, Women, Number '000, % and 95% confidence interval, calculated using from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
	Number '000	%	95% confidence interval		Number '000	%	95% confidence interval		Number '000	%	95% confidence interval
	Both sexes				Men				Women
	Number '000	%	from	to	Number '000	%	from	to	Number '000	%	from	to
Level of hearing difficulty
None	12,347	93.5	93.0	93.9	5,804	92.1	91.4	92.8	6,543	94.7^{Table 1 Note ‡}	94.2	95.1
Any hearing difficulty	864	6.5	6.1	7.0	497	7.9	7.2	8.6	367	5.3^{Table 1 Note ‡}	4.9	5.8
Mild	431	3.3	3.0	3.6	256	4.1	3.6	4.5	175	2.5^{Table 1 Note ‡}	2.2	2.9
Moderate or severe	433	3.3	3.0	3.6	241	3.8	3.4	4.3	192	2.8^{Table 1 Note ‡}	2.5	3.1
Hearing status (any hearing difficulty)
Corrected	592	4.5	4.2	4.8	339	5.4	4.9	5.9	254	3.7^{Table 1 Note ‡}	3.3	4.1
Uncorrected	265	2.0	1.8	2.3	156	2.5	2.1	3.0	109	1.6^{Table 1 Note ‡}	1.3	1.9
Age group (any hearing difficulty)
45 to 59	192	2.7	2.2	3.2	112	3.2	2.4	4.2	80	2.2	1.6	2.9
60 to 74	291	6.9^{Table 1 Note †}	6.3	7.6	196	9.8^{Table 1 Note †}	8.7	10.9	95	4.3^{Table 1 Note †}^{Table 1 Note ‡}	3.7	5.1
75 or older	382	20.8^{Table 1 Note †}	19.4	22.2	189	24.6^{Table 1 Note †}	22.3	27.0	193	18.0^{Table 1 Note †}^{Table 1 Note ‡}	16.5	19.6
Note † significantly different from preceding age group (p < 0.01) Return to note † referrer Note ‡ significantly different from men (p < 0.05) Return to note ‡ referrer Source: 2008/2009 Canadian Community Health Survey–Healthy Aging.

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