Table1.

prevalence of self reported visual impairment by age, spectacle use and overall health of respondents

Respondents	N	Distant impairment	Near impairment	Both near &distant	Neither
Age (years)		%	%	%	%
65-69	676	14.9	16.1	10.1	79.0
70-74	469	17.2	14.4	10.7	78.3
75-79	285	25.6	19.8	16.6	71.1
80 +	624	29.5	21.4	19.2	68.3
Gender
Male	957	19.3	18.3	12.1	74.7
Female	1097	20.9	15.3	13.1	77.3
Use of Spectacle	334	31.5	28.7	28.6	60.6
Self reported poor over all health	604	19.8	22.9	22.3	71.1