Prevalence of blindness and low vision by sex and ethnicity
| Prevalence of blindness | Prevalence of low vision | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Respondents | Crude % (SE) | *Age adjusted % (SE) | Estimatedpopulation (SE) | Crude % (SE) | *Age adjusted % (SE) | Estimated population (SE) | |
| *Age adjusted to the 1996 Malaysian population. | |||||||
| Ethnicity | |||||||
| Malay | 9700 | 0.21 (0.05) | 0.23 (0.06) | 20 110 (4977) | 2.28 (0.28) | 2.42 (0.19) | 220 125 (26535 |
| Male | 4638 | 0.17 (0.07) | 0.19 (0.08) | 8419 (3474) | 1.71 (0.2 | 1.88 (0.23) | 82 727 (13847) |
| Female | 5062 | 0.24 (0.08) | 0.26 (0.08) | 11 691 (3698) | 2.85 (0.32) | 2.95 (0.27) | 137 398 (17629) |
| Chinese | 4305 | 0.33 (0.11) | 0.29 (0.11) | 17 399 (5938) | 2.53 (0.28) | 2.11 (0.22) | 134 979 (17696 |
| Male | 2033 | 0.27 (0.39) | 0.27 (0.14) | 7248 (3569) | 2.31 (0.41) | 2.09 (0.33) | 62 503 (11803) |
| Female | 2272 | 0.39 (0.18) | 0.29 (0.16) | 10 151 (4858) | 2.76 (0.42) | 2.20 (0.30) | 72 476 (12109) |
| Indian | 1154 | 0.13 (0.10) | 0.24 (0.18) | 1837 (1400) | 2.42 (0.52) | 2.85 (0.52) | 34 629 (7772) |
| Male | 505 | 0.18 (0.18) | 0.3 (0.29) | 1298 (1298) | 2.48 (0.75) | 2.85 (0.78) | 17 660 (5238) |
| Female | 649 | 0.08 (0.7) | 0.16 (0.17) | 539 (539) | 2.37 (0.66) | 2.86 (0.68) | 16 969 (4934) |
| Indigenous | 1740 | 0.57 (0.24) | 0.64 (0.22) | 13 668 (5928) | 2.88 (0.49) | 3.32 (0.46) | 68 829 (13537) |
| Male | 771 | 0.54 (0.27) | 0.63 (0.32) | 6639 (3373) | 2.11 (0.51) | 2.54 (0.58) | 25 690 (6750) |
| Female | 969 | 0.60 (0.27) | 0.64 (0.30) | 7029 (3273) | 3.67 (0.82) | 4.06 (0.64) | 43 139 (1563) |