Table 1.

Descriptive Data by Gender and Age-Group. Mean Values, With the Standard Deviation in Brackets, Are Shown for Continuous and Ordinal Variables.

Variable	Female, 40s	Female, 50s	Female, 60s	Male, 40s	Male, 50s	Male, 60s
N	16,438	23,689	31,773	13,440	18,811	30,206
Age (years)	44.9	54.8	64.0	44.8	54.9	64.2
Hearing difficulty in noise (% yes)	23	29	35	29	40	50
BESRTn (dB SNR)	−7.9 (1.36)	−7.6 (1.45)	−7.1 (1.68)	−8.0 (1.34)	−7.7 (1.53)	−7.0 (1.87)
Depression, longest episode (weeks)	9.2 (29.46)	9.3 (31.34)	8.4 (30.70)	6.2 (25.54)	7.4 (32.75)	5.9 (27.62)
Depression, no of episodes	3.1 (17.99)	3.0 (20.28)	2.5 (16.45)	2.8 (17.85)	3.0 (20.60)	2.3 (18.27)
Unenthusiastic, longest episode (weeks)	6.0 (25.70)	6.2 (27.71)	5.0 (25.26)	4.0 (21.78)	4.6 (25.48)	3.7 (25.06)
Unenthusiastic, no of episodes	2.6 (22.10)	2.4 (17.93)	2.0 (17.46)	2.1 (16.05)	2.4 (21.00)	1.7 (16.66)
Number of depressive symptoms	2.4 (1.84)	2.2 (1.86)	1.8 (1.78)	2.0 (1.81)	1.8 (1.79)	1.5 (1.65)
Number of anxiety symptoms	2.6 (1.77)	2.5 (1.75)	2.4 (1.70)	2.1 (1.81)	2.0 (1.77)	1.8 (1.69)
Feeling down (score)	1.5 (0.59)	1.5 (0.57)	1.3 (0.47)	1.5 (0.58)	1.4 (0.54)	1.3 (0.45)
Unhappiness (score)	2.6 (0.59)	2.5 (0.56)	2.4 (0.51)	2.7 (0.60)	2.6 (0.60)	2.4 (0.55)
Unemployment (% yes)	2	2	0	4	5	2
Social isolation (score)	4.2 (1.41)	4.3 (1.44)	4.7 (1.44)	3.9 (1.43)	3.9 (1.49)	4.2 (1.49)
Heart attack (% yes)	0	1	2	1	3	6
Angina (% yes)	0	1	3	1	3	7
Stroke (% yes)	0	1	2	1	1	3
High blood pressure (% yes)	11	20	32	15	28	39
Number of physical Illnesses	0.5 (0.71)	0.6 (0.73)	0.6 (0.74)	0.5 (0.58)	0.5 (0.70)	0.5 (0.71)
Professional support (% yes)	44	44	39	27	29	26

Note. BESRTn = best ear speech reception threshold in noise; SNR = signal-to-noise ratio.