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Introduction: Still few facts are known about the daily listening habits of retired CI-users above 60 years (retirees) compared to employed CI-users (employers) up to 60 years. Methods: In this study 28 retirees and 29 employers were evaluated about their individual listening situations with a self-developed questionnaire at the earliest six months after initial fitting. Additionally, datalogging -an automatically identification of listening situations recording in the speech processor (CochlearTM, 2014)- was selected and compared with the results of the questionnaire. Results: With the assistance of datalogging significant differences between employers and retirees were determined only in the length time of the listening situation "noise". In all other listening settings no significant differences were found. Furthermore it could be shown that employers as well as retirees wore their CI on average 13 hours per day. On contrast in their personal subjective rating there were significant differences between employers and retirees in the duration time wearing the CI per day and as well in the length time in the listening situation "speech in noise". Conclusion: Using datalogging it could be shown that there is a discrepancy between subjective personal judgement and evaluation by datalogging. How far these results should be considered in technical fitting as well as in therapy should be investigated in further studies. The study was supported by Cochlear GmbH. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]