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Statistics on sight problems - Resources

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

• Total numbers of people with sight problems
• Causes of blindness and partial sight
• Children with sight problems
• Employment of people with sight problems
• People with sight problems in further and higher education
• Use of alternative formats for information
• General statistics on people with disabilities in the UK
• Other UK statistics

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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

• Registered blind and partially sighted people, year ending 31 March 2006, England
• Registered blind and partially sighted persons 2003, Scotland
• Wales Council for the Blind statistics
• Blind and partially sighted populations in European countries (EBU estimates). European Blind Union Office 2000.
• USA Statistics on Vision Impairment (2002)

Causes of blindness and partial sight

• Causes of blindness and partial sight in England and Wales 1990-1991; by Jennifer Evans. London: HMSO, 1995. Print copy available for loan from RNIB Research Library.
• Ophthalmic statistics for England: 1990-1991 to 2000-2001. London: Department of Health, 2001. Print copy available for loan from RNIB Research Library.

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.
• RNIB. Shaping the future: the health and wellbeing of blind and partially sighted children and young people aged 5 to 25. London: RNIB, 2001.
• Cole-Hamilton, Issy and others. Shaping the future: research methodology and survey population. London: Royal National Institute for the Blind, 2001.
• 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.

Employment of people with sight problems

• Labour market experiences of people with disabilities. Labour Market Trends, 8 August 2002. Includes percentage of people with sight problems who are currently in employment.
• Disability and the labour market: results from the summer 2000 LFS [Labour Force Survey]. Labour Market Trends, May 2001, 241-252. Copies available from RNIB Research Library. Request a photocopy.
• Enduring economic exclusion: disabled people, income and work. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2000. Print copy available for loan from RNIB Research Library.

People with sight problems in further and higher education

• Disabled students in higher education, UK 2000/2001. Higher Education Statistics Agency, 2001
• Simkiss, P., Garner, S. and Dryden, G. What next? The experience of transition. London: RNIB, 1998. Print copy available for loan from RNIB Research Library.

Use of alternative formats for information

• Access to Written Information - RNIB Campaign Report (2001) Print copy available for loan from RNIB Research Library.
• 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.

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.

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Other UK statistics

• For other statistics on the UK population, including England and Wales, visit the National Statistics website.
• The Northern Ireland Statistic and Research Agency publishes statistics on the general population of Northern Ireland
• The Scottish Executive website provides statistics relating to Scotland.

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: 01/05/2009 15:31