TABLE 5.

Presenting and best corrected visual acuity of cataract operated eyes in relation to age, gender, education, residence, year of surgery, place of surgery and surgical rocedure

	Cataract operated eyes		% Presenting VA ≥ 20/63	% Best corrected VA ≥ 20/63
	No.	%
Age (yrs)
50–59	246	18.9	58.5	84.1
60–69	486	37.4	53.5	78.8
70+	567	43.6	44.8	66.7
Gender
Male	582	44.8	51.2	74.9
Female	717	55.2	50.2	74.2
Education
Illiterate	586	45.1	39.8	67.1
< Grade 5	472	36.3	55.5	78.2
Grade 6–10	151	11.6	68.2	85.4
≥ Grade 11	90	6.9	66.7	85.6
Residence
Rural	880	67.7	46.6	72.7
Urban	419	32.2	59.2	78.3
Year of surgery
≤ 1998	227	17.5	33.9	54.2
1999–2001	204	15.7	50.5	73.0
2002–2004	459	35.3	51.4	76.7
≥ 2005	400	30.8	59.8	84.8
Unknown	9	0.7	33.3	55.6
Place of surgery
Govt. hospital	92	7.1	27.2	62.0
Private hospital	411	31.6	59.1	77.6
NGO hospital	764	58.8	50.1	75.4
Outreach camps	22	1.7	22.7	59.1
Unknown	10	0.8	20	30.0
Surgical procedure
ICCE/ECCE w/o IOLa	198	15.2	20.2	48.5
IOL implant	1093	84.1	56.5	79.6
Other/undeterminedb	8	0.62	0.0	25.0
All	1299	100.0	50.7	74.5

NGO = non-governmental organization; ICCE = intracapsular cataract extraction; ECCE = extracapsular cataract extraction; PC = Posterior Chamber; IOL = Intraocular lens.

^aIncludes 84 without spectacles

^bIncludes five without spectacles