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. 2015 Mar 7;14:22. doi: 10.1186/s12940-015-0009-8

Table 2.

Estimates of the proportion of the population of Hong Kong annoyed, or self-reporting sleep disturbance, by road traffic noise

% of the sample 95% confidence interval of the % in the HK population
Annoyed with road traffic noise (over whole day)
Highly annoyed 7.9% 7.4 to 8.4%
Annoyed 24.6% 23.7 to 25.4%
(at least) A little annoyed 47.8% 46.8 to 48.8%
Annoyed with road traffic noise (at night)
Highly annoyed at night 5.0% 4.5 to 5.4%
Annoyed at night 15.7% 15.0 to 16.4%
(at least) A little annoyed at night 36.1% 35.2 to 37.0%
(Self-reported) Sleep disturbed by road traffic noise
Highly sleep disturbed 4.1% 3.7 to 4.5%
Sleep disturbed 11.3% 10.7 to 11.9%
(at least) A little sleep disturbed 27.3% 26.4 to 28.2%