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Bruce, I., McKennell, A., and Walker, E., Blind and partially sighted adults in Britain: the RNIB survey, volume 1, HMSO, 1991, 327pp, pbk £19.95, ISBN 0 11 701479 6

This first volume of the RNIB-commissioned survey reports on detailed interviews with 595 blind or partially sighted adults held between 1986 and 1987. The report provides new and startling estimates of the number of blind and partially sighted people eligible for registration in this country estimates which are four times the official registration figures. It also documents background and life style of the visually impaired population and addresses issues such as employment, income, housing, daily living skills, reading, mobility, health, leisure and the take-up of statutory and voluntary services. Clearly, the survey’s findings present a major challenge to all those involved with services for people with visual impairment. Some of these findings were discussed in the article by Graham Lomas in the November 1991 issue of the BJVI ; this review comments briefly on the methodological approach of the survey. One of the critical elements in a survey of this kind is that those sampled should be representative of the visually impaired population as a whole that is, that the people interviewed should be representative of those eligible for visual impairment registration in this country. The research team drew their sample from