Table 3.
Use of Hearing Protection (n = 4585)
| source | transit users
|
nontransit users
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | “regular” hearing protector user
|
N | “regular” hearing protector user
|
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| n | percentage | n | percentage | |||
| any | 4436 | 492 | 11.1 | 149 | 14 | 9.6 |
| occupational | 3829 | 143 | 3.7 | 128 | 6 | 4.7 |
| “noisy” occupations (agriculture, construction, entertainment, food services, landscaping, maintenance, manufacturing, military, transportation, utility) | 1033 | 95 | 9.2 | 50 | 4 | 8.0 |
| “quiet” occupations (education/research, healthcare, professional, retail, homemaker, retired, unemployed) | 3403 | 63 | 1.8 | 99 | 2 | 2.0 |
| transit | ||||||
| rail | 4305 | 177 | 4.1 | |||
| bus | 2923 | 152 | 5.2 | |||
| ferry | 284 | 17 | 6.0 | |||
| nonoccupational | ||||||
| play in banda | 240 | 67 | 27.9 | 3 | 0 | 0.0 |
| concerts | 1246 | 231 | 18.5 | 27 | 3 | 11.1 |
| sporting events | 1125 | 95 | 8.4 | 29 | 2 | 6.9 |
| power toolsa | 590 | 170 | 28.8 | 28 | 10 | 35.7 |
a
χ2 test, transit users versus nonusers, P < 0.05.