Table 1.
Prevalence of tinnitus across the experimental variables (N = 132,438).
| Experimental variables | Tinnitus | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No, never | Yes, but not now, but have in the past | Yes, now some of the time | Yes, now a lot of the time | Yes, now most or all of the time | |
| Sex (male > female)** | |||||
| Male | 41,761 (31.5%) | 6878 (5.2%) | 5857 (4.4%) | 1839 (1.4%) | 5311 (4%) |
| Female | 52,152 (39.4%) | 7764 (5.9%) | 5959 (4.5%) | 1508 (1.1%) | 3409 (2.6%) |
| Ethnicity | |||||
| British White | 90,696 (68.5%) | 14,134 (10.7%) | 11,460 (8.7%) | 3258 (2.5%) | 8472 (6.4%) |
| Irish White | 3217 (2.4%) | 508 (0.4%) | 356 (0.3%) | 89 (0.1%) | 248 (0.2%) |
| Loud music exposure (none > yes)* | |||||
| None | 83,616 (63.9%) | 11,684 (8.9%) | 9697 (7.4%) | 2720 (2.1%) | 7198 (5.5%) |
| Yes, less than 1 year | 2388 (1.8%) | 753 (0.6%) | 478 (0.4%) | 125 (0.1%) | 276 (0.2%) |
| Yes, 1–5 years | 3787 (2.9%) | 980 (0.7%) | 674 (0.5%) | 222 (0.2%) | 507 (0.4%) |
| Yes, more than 5 years | 3154 (2.4%) | 959 (0.7%) | 757 (0.6%) | 225 (0.2%) | 597 (0.5%) |
| Work-related noise exposure (none > yes)* | |||||
| None | 75,372 (57.4%) | 9859 (7.5%) | 7856 (6%) | 2176 (1.7%) | 5365 (4.1%) |
| Yes, less than 1 year | 4683 (3.6%) | 1139 (0.9%) | 719 (0.5%) | 206 (0.2%) | 464 (0.4%) |
| Yes, 1–5 years | 4430 (3.4%) | 1180 (0.9%) | 941 (0.7%) | 273 (0.2%) | 671 (0.5%) |
| Yes, more than 5 years | 8792 (6.7%) | 2316 (1.8%) | 2168 (1.6%) | 665 (0.5%) | 2133 (1.6%) |
| Age (40 > 70 years)** | |||||
| 40–49 | 20,228 (15.3%) | 3589 (2.7%) | 1876 (1.4%) | 389 (0.3%) | 389 (0.3%) |
| 50–59 | 30,209 (22.8%) | 4675 (3.5%) | 3633 (2.7%) | 1034 (0.8%) | 2439 (1.8%) |
| 60–69 | 43,043 (32.5%) | 6301 (4.8%) | 6227 (4.7%) | 1903 (1.4%) | 5255 (4%) |
| > 70 | 433 (0.3%) | 77 (0.1%) | 80 (0.1%) | 21 (0%) | 77 (0.1%) |
**Chi square p < 10–100, *Chi square p < 10–10.