Data on all sample household members are collected from a single respondent by trained interviewers using a standardized questionnaire during in-person or telephone interviews. ASEC is conducted each year in conjunction with the March survey to collect additional data on work experience, income, noncash benefits, and migration. CPS obtains information on employment, demographics and other characteristics of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population aged ≥16 years. These findings suggest a need for increased emphasis on improving military hearing conservation programs (HCPs) and on hearing loss surveillance in military and veterans' health systems.ĬPS is a monthly national survey of 57,000 households conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Veterans were 30% more likely to have SHI than nonveterans after adjusting for age and current occupation, and veterans who served in the United States or overseas during September 2001-March 2010, the era of overseas contingency operations (including Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom), were four times more likely than nonveterans to have SHI. This report describes the results of those analyses, which indicated that the prevalence of SHI among veterans was significantly greater than among nonveterans. To further investigate hearing loss among veterans, specifically the prevalence of severe hearing impairment (SHI), data from the 2010 Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) to the Current Population Survey (CPS) were analyzed. However, a recent analysis of data from the 1993-1995 Epidemiology of Hearing Loss Study did not find significant differences between the two groups ( 3). Among military veterans, the most common service-connected disabilities are hearing impairments ( 2), suggesting that occupational noise exposure during military service might cause more veterans to have hearing loss than nonveterans. Severe Hearing Impairment Among Military Veterans - United States, 2010Ī substantial proportion of hearing loss in the United States is attributable to employment-related exposure to noise ( 1). For assistance, please send e-mail to: Type 508 Accommodation and the title of the report in the subject line of e-mail. Persons using assistive technology might not be able to fully access information in this file.
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