Table 1. Demographic characteristics of participants with corrected refractive error and participants with uncorrected or under-corrected refractive error.
| Non-Indigenous (n = 1990) | Indigenous (n = 670) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncorrected† | Corrected‡ | Uncorrected† | Corrected‡ | |
| (n = 124) | (n = 1776) | (n = 116) | (n = 554) | |
| Continuous variables | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) |
| Age (years) | 67.6 (10.5) | 67.3 (9.3) | 58.5 (10.9) | 57.6 (10.0) |
| Education (years) | 11.9 (4.5) | 12.7 (3.7) | 10.0 (3.0) | 11.0 (3.4) |
| Categorical variable | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) |
| Gender (male) | 62 (50.0) | 753 (42.4) | 46 (39.7) | 205 (37.0) |
| English at home | 116 (93.6) | 1682 (94.7) | 111 (95.7) | 541 (97.7) |
| Ethnicity | ||||
| Oceanian | 88 (71.0) | 1265 (71.2) | 116 (100.0) | 553 (99.8) |
| European | 26 (21.0) | 377 (21.2) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.12) |
| Others | 10 (8.1) | 134 (7.6) | ||
| Remoteness | ||||
| Major City | 53 (42.7) | 705 (39.7) | 39 (33.6) | 263 (47.5) |
| Inner Regional | 20 (16.1) | 388 (21.9) | 17 (14.7) | 122 (22.0) |
| Outer Regional | 31 (25.0) | 358 (20.2) | 44 (37.9) | 95 (17.2) |
| Remote | 8 (6.5) | 196 (11.0) | 8 (6.9) | 50 (9.0) |
| Very Remote | 12 (9.7) | 129 (7.2) | 8 (6.9) | 24 (4.3) |
†Participants with uncorrected or under-corrected refractive error determined to be the main cause of bilateral presenting vision loss (<6/12)
‡Participants who reported to have distance spectacle or contact lens correction and had presenting bilateral visual acuity ≥ 6/12.