Visually Handicapped in the City of Nottingham, 1977-1978

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The aims of this survey were: to update the information from the 1967 national survey by Gray and Todd (Mobility and Reading Habits of the Blind, Government Social Survey SS 386); to learn specifically about the visually handicapped who live in the City of Nottingham; to extend the age range of the national survey and to include those registered as partially sighted.

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Variables Vision, mobility, reading habits, employment, additional disabilities. Daily living skills, hearing aid usage, tactile map usage, use of mobility information.

No sampling (total universe)

Face-to-face interview

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-2032-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=4488db4457b122ae51ab1013e0c18e9c72716838ab6863820ce18c12ef85c5b0
Provenance
Creator Heyes, A. D., University of Nottingham, Blind Mobility Research Unit; Clark-Carter, D., University of Nottingham, Blind Mobility Research Unit; Dodds, A. G., University of Nottingham, Blind Mobility Research Unit; Armstrong, J. D., University of Nottingham, Blind Mobility Research Unit; Howarth, C. I., University of Nottingham, Blind Mobility Research Unit
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 1985
Funding Reference Medical Research Council; Department of Health and Social Security
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Discipline Social Sciences
Spatial Coverage Nottinghamshire; England