Traffic Noise Outside the Home: HealthInsider No. 8, December 2002

Closing Comments

Almost 37% of Canadians said they were slightly to extremely bothered by noise from road traffic. When asked to rate how bothered they were with road traffic noise on a scale from zero to ten, the mean rating was 2.14 and the median rating was 1.00, suggesting that 50% of Canadians are bothered at least very slightly by road noise. The extent to which respondents were bothered by noise varied by sex, age category, income, education, work status, community size and region.

References

1. Environment Canada, Health and the Environment, 2001
2. World Health Organization,
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3. Health Canada, Health and the Environment - The Built Environment, 1997.
4. IBM Business Consulting, HealthInsider, 2002.