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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 23.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Audiol. 2014 Mar;53(0 2):S76–S83. doi: 10.3109/14992027.2013.857438

Table 2.

Noise measurements

Entire study period (1992-2011) Final 3 years (2009-2011) Final / entire
study period



Location N
meas.
Mean n
meas./
year
Mean n
employees
Mean n meas./
year per 100
employees
N meas. Mean n
meas./ year
Mean n
employees
Mean n meas./
year per 100
employees
Ratio of
normalized
rates



Total 10,782 539 8,441 6.4 1,499 500 7,158 7.0 1.1
1 2,174 109 1,204 9.0 238 79 1,096 7.2 0.8
2 1,248 62 991 6.3 247 82 781 10.5 1.7
3 2,273 114 1,805 6.3 193 64 1,681 3.8 0.6
4 765 38 777 4.9 554 185 642 28.8 5.9
5 1,273 64 844 7.5 190 63 616 10.3 1.4
6 516 26 593 4.4 80 27 466 5.7 1.3
7 1,888 94 1,804 5.2 171 57 1,562 3.6 0.7
8 645 32 422 7.6 238 79 1,096 7.2 0.9