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Statistics on sight problems - Resources

Summary: Useful resources about statistics on numbers of people with sight problems.


If you are looking for statistics which do not come under any of these headings, please search our online catalogue, which contains reports of studies and surveys of blind and partially people from the nineteenth century onwards.

Total numbers of people with sight problems

Causes of blindness and partial sight

Children with sight problems

  • RNIB. Shaping the future: the educational experiences of five to sixteen year-old blind and partially sighted children and young people. London: RNIB, 2001. Request a loan.
  • RNIB. Shaping the future: the health and wellbeing of blind and partially sighted children and young people aged 5 to 25. London: RNIB, 2001 Request a loan.
  • Cole-Hamilton, Issy and others. Shaping the future: research methodology and survey population. London: Royal National Institute for the Blind, 2001 Request a loan.
  • USA Statistics on children with visual impairments (1999)
  • GREAT BRITAIN. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys. Social Survey Division OPCS surveys of disability in Great Britain. Report 3: the prevalence of disability among children; [edited by] Margaret Bone and Howard Meltzer. London: HMSO, 1989. Print copy available for loan from RNIB Research Library. Request a loan.

Employment of people with sight problems

People with sight problems in further and higher education

Use of alternative formats for information

  • Access to Written Information - RNIB Campaign Report (2001) Print copy available for loan from RNIB Research Library. Request a loan.
  • Blind and partially sighted adults in Britain: the RNIB survey, 1991. Includes the number of braille readers in the UK. Print copy available for loan from RNIB Research Library. Request a loan.

General statistics on people with disabilities in the UK

  • Disability in Great Britain; by Emily Grundy, Dennis Ahlburg, Mohamed Ali, Elizabeth Breeze and Andy Sloggett. Leeds: Corporate Document Services, 1999. Print copy available for loan from RNIB Research Library. Request a loan.

Other UK statistics

If you are looking for statistics which do not come under any of the above headings, please search our online catalogue.

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Last updated: 06/03/2008 15:41

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