Summary information
Study title
Who Are Britain's Blind People? 1981
Creator
Royal National Institute for the Blind
Study number / PID
1797 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-1797-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The purpose of this study was to collect information about blind people and their circumstances, as well as the usefulness of audio tape as a means of communicating everyday information, and on the particular sample tape associated with the survey. This was the first countrywide survey in almost twenty years.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/07/1981 - 01/09/1981
Country
Great Britain
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Individuals
Groups
National
Visually disabled
Universe
Members of the RNIB Talking Book Library aged over sixteen
Sampling procedure
Simple random sample
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Postal survey
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1982
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.
Related publications
- Hall, L. (1982) Who are Britain's blind people? [Research report], : New Society.