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Studies of the epidemiology of permanent childhood hearing impairment prior to 2000 included relatively small samples (<700) and were thus unable to precisely define the relation between prevalence, age and degree of impairment.

Also the methodology of these studies did not allow any estimation of the degree of under-ascertainment, i.e. the number of children not included in the study.