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Proactive Disclosure
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
- Environment Canada, Health and the Environment, 2001
World Health Organization,
http://www.who.int/docstore/peh/noise/guidelines2.html
- Health Canada, Health and the Environment - The Built Environment,
1997.
- IBM Business Consulting, HealthInsider, 2002.