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The total population with hearing dysfunction segmented according to whether they self-report as having hearing difficulty or not (HD or NHD, respectively) and whether they have an audiometric hearing loss or not (HL or NHL, respectively). Those with both self-reported hearing difficulty and an audiometric hearing loss (HD–HL) are further segmented into hearing aid owners and hearing aid nonowners.
