Conduct of a personal radiofrequency electromagnetic field measurement study: proposed study protocol

Table 3 Distribution of total (all sources) individual exposure at different places and times in a Swiss study sample (partly reprinted from [15]).

	Arithm. mean	Minimum	5% quantile	25% quantile	Median	75% quantile	95% quantile	Maximum
Average (mW/m ² )	0.134	0.014	0.030	0.054	0.092	0.163	0.351	0.881
- Daytime	0.164	0.014	0.034	0.070	0.127	0.209	0.445	1.063
- Nighttime	0.076	0.003	0.005	0.014	0.028	0.086	0.245	1.367
- Workday	0.134	0.013	0.027	0.055	0.096	0.170	0.353	0.776
- Weekend	0.133	0.007	0.014	0.031	0.064	0.148	0.474	1.243
Time above 1 V/m (%)	0.453	0.016	0.046	0.134	0.255	0.509	1.201	8.442
- Daytime	0.629	0.000	0.038	0.174	0.359	0.697	1.988	8.754
- Nighttime	0.083	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.072	0.313	2.101
- Workday	0.447	0.000	0.036	0.127	0.254	0.500	1.409	5.836
- Weekend	0.458	0.000	0.000	0.052	0.157	0.365	1.714	14.958
Rate of change (mW/m ² ) ¹	0.128	0.011	0.025	0.060	0.102	0.172	0.299	0.484
- Daytime	0.181	0.004	0.018	0.062	0.170	0.260	0.430	0.590
- Nighttime	0.037	0.000	0.000	0.002	0.006	0.021	0.237	0.351
- Workday	0.133	0.003	0.018	0.048	0.117	0.191	0.328	0.480
- Weekend	0.117	0.000	0.004	0.018	0.054	0.189	0.413	0.812

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