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Introduction
The purpose of this Statistics Release is to present national figures on visually impaired persons registered with Local Authorities in Scotland. All figures relate to the 31 st March 2007 and are provisional and, as such, may be subject to change. The final figures will be published in future publications.
Registration with Local Authorities for blind and partially sighted persons is not compulsory. Research studies suggest that between a quarter and a third of visually impaired people are in fact registered with Local Authorities (see background note for more details).
Chart 1: Registered Visually Impaired Persons by Age Group, 2007
Main points
Information collected on visually impaired persons show that: -
- In 2007, the number of people registered as blind or partially sighted was estimated to be 35,400.
- There were 3,263 cases registered during the period 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2007, down 6.5 per cent on 2006.
- The majority, 58 per cent, of those on the register were blind, 42 per cent were partially sighted.
- 38 per cent of those on the register were male and 62 per cent were female.
- Over three-quarters (76%) of those registered were over the age of 65.
- 10,696 persons (30 per cent) of those registered as visually impaired had additional disabilities. Of these, roughly a quarter were deaf.
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