State of health. Absolute figures Limitation of hearing by sex and social class based on the occupation of the reference person. Population aged 15 years old and over. Units: thousands of persons ,Total,Without difficulty,With some difficulty,With severe difficulty,Unable to do so,No data recorded, BOTH SEXES, Total,38,726.9,34,756.4,3,255.2,540.0,161.7,13.6, I,4,111.4,3,846.5,231.5,21.0,12.4,0.0, II,2,830.1,2,645.0,159.4,21.8,3.9,0.0, III,6,885.7,6,255.9,502.0,90.8,36.7,0.4, IV,5,772.6,5,195.6,497.8,58.5,18.7,2.1, V,12,360.2,10,868.2,1,222.8,205.3,55.9,8.0, VI,5,718.0,5,043.9,535.6,114.4,24.0,0.0, No data recorded,1,048.9,901.4,106.1,28.1,10.2,3.1, MALES, Total,18,900.0,16,982.2,1,598.8,260.7,54.9,3.4, I,2,174.3,2,050.0,113.5,8.4,2.5,0.0, II,1,324.2,1,243.1,75.6,1.6,3.9,0.0, III,3,198.0,2,921.1,228.3,38.4,10.1,0.0, IV,3,164.2,2,835.4,287.7,36.7,3.4,1.1, V,6,240.7,5,480.3,642.8,97.1,18.2,2.4, VI,2,490.8,2,178.2,232.7,63.1,16.8,0.0, No data recorded,307.9,274.1,18.3,15.5,0.0,0.0, FEMALES, Total,19,827.0,17,774.2,1,656.4,279.3,106.8,10.1, I,1,937.1,1,796.5,118.1,12.6,9.9,0.0, II,1,505.9,1,401.8,83.8,20.3,0.0,0.0, III,3,687.7,3,334.7,273.7,52.4,26.5,0.4, IV,2,608.4,2,360.2,210.1,21.8,15.3,1.0, V,6,119.5,5,388.0,580.0,108.3,37.7,5.7, VI,3,227.2,2,865.7,302.9,51.4,7.2,0.0, No data recorded,741.0,627.3,87.8,12.6,10.2,3.1, Notes: 1) a) Hearing limitation using hearing aid, if used. 1) b) Socio-economic levels classification of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology: I. Directors and managers of establishments with 10 or more wage earners and professionals traditionally associated with university degrees II. Directors and managers of establishments with 10 or more wage earners, professionals traditionally associated with university degrees and other technical support professionals III. Intermediate occupations and self-employed workers IV. Supervisors and workers in skilled technical occupations IV. Skilled primary sector workers and other semi-skilled workers VI. Non-skilled workers The symbol '.' shall be deemed as data which cannot be given due to an insufficient sample. The symbol '..' shall be deemed as data which are not collected for this classification in the table. The symbol '...' shall be deemed as an 'error of division by zero. The data corresponding to cells with fewer than 35 thousand persons must be considered with caution, as they may be affected by a high degree of sampling error. Source: Ministry of Public Health, Social Services and Equality and INE