Table 1.
Social and demographic features of the sample and the audiometric profile.
| Variable | Audiometric Profile | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | Presbycusis | p* | ||||
| N | % | N | % | |||
| Sex | male | 327 | 82 | 207 | 91,6 | 0,001* | 
| female | 72 | 18 | 19 | 8,4 | ||
| 40-45 | 92 | 23,1 | 22 | 9,7 | 0* | |
| 46-50 | 131 | 32,8 | 47 | 20,8 | ||
| Age group | 51-55 | 119 | 29,8 | 67 | 67 | |
| 56-60 | 46 | 11,5 | 56 | 24,8 | ||
| 61-65 | 6 | 1,5 | 17 | 7,5 | ||
| over 65 | 5 | 1,3 | 17 | 7,5 | ||
| Profession | Engineer | 130 | 32,6 | 71 | 31,4 | 0,764 | 
| Others | 269 | 67,4 | 155 | 68,6 | ||
| Sub-total | 399 | 226 | ||||