People Registered as Blind and Partially Sighted

Contains detailed statistics on adults and children registered, with councils with social services responsibilities in England, as being blind or partially sighted. The data are compiled from the triennial SSDA 902 return submitted by councils to the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC).

People that have a Certificate of Vision Impairment from an ophthalmologist choose whether or not to be included in their local authority’s register of blind or partially sighted people; registration is not automatic. Those that register become eligible for certain concessions. This means that not everybody that has been certified as having a vision impairment is recorded on a local authority register. In addition, some local authorities have informed us that there are difficulties in providing some elements of these data. For these reasons the data in this publication cannot be considered as definitive numbers of blind and partially sighted people.

本数据集详尽记录了英格兰拥有社会责任的市政委员会登记的成人和儿童中盲人或视力受损者的统计数据。数据源自市政委员会提交给卫生与社会保障信息中心（HSCIC）的每三年一次的SSDA 902报表。持有眼科医生开具的视力障碍证明的个人可自行选择是否加入其所在地方当局的盲人或视力受损者名录；登记并非自动进行。完成登记的个人将有权享受某些优惠措施。因此，并非所有被认定为视力障碍的人士均会在地方当局的登记名录中记录在案。此外，部分地方当局已告知我们，在提供某些数据元素方面存在困难。基于上述原因，本出版物中的数据不能被视为盲人或视力受损者的确切人数。