Table 2.

Proportions of men (1st fraction in each cell of the table) and proportions of persons with an education other than University, College, A level, AS level (2nd fraction) in the Age by Hearing status groups.

		Hear
	Age	Normal < −5.5		Insuff −5.5 to −3.5		Poor > −3.5		Total
		Men	LoEduc	Men	LoEduc	Men	LoEduc	Men	LoEduc
1	<48	0.45	0.44	0.42	0.54	0.37	0.66	0.45	0.45
2	48–57	0.43	0.45	0.40	0.50	0.46	0.55	0.43	0.45
3	58–67	0.47	0.49	0.47	0.54	0.54	0.61	0.47	0.59
4	>67	0.49	0.54	0.49	0.58	0.57	0.64	0.49	0.55
Total		0.46	0.47	0.46	0.53	0.52	0.61	0.46	0.47

Note. Fractions (0.0–1.0) of men and persons with an education other than University, College, A level, AS level in the Age by Hearing groups. For the fraction of men there are valid observations for the same 138,098 persons as in our standard sub-sample, but for education the total number is 116,947.