European Health Survey  
SENSORY VISUAL AND AUDITORY LIMITATIONS
Vision limitation by sex and relation with current economic activity. Population aged 15 years old and over.
Units: thousands of persons

	TOTAL	Without difficulty	With Enough difficulty	With a great deal of difficulty	Unable to do so	No data recorded	
Both sexes	
    TOTAL	38,959.7	33,722.2	4,398.9	745.5	71.4	21.7	
    Working	17,346.3	15,871.2	1,389.2	69.7	8.0	8.2	
    Unemployed	5,876.9	5,219.6	603.5	51.4	0.0	2.5	
    Retired person or early retirement person	7,951.3	5,923.7	1,540.5	432.1	48.5	6.5	
    Studying	3,388.1	3,213.6	164.8	1.7	7.9	0.0	
    Unable to work	876.3	645.1	139.2	85.6	3.3	3.1	
    Housework	3,413.7	2,765.0	544.9	98.6	3.6	1.5	
    Other	107.1	83.9	16.8	6.4	0.0	0.0	
Men	
    TOTAL	19,005.4	16,645.3	1,995.1	318.8	32.0	14.2	
    Working	9,680.7	8,863.7	770.9	33.5	5.5	7.1	
    Unemployed	2,923.9	2,569.1	318.7	33.6	0.0	2.5	
    Retired person or early retirement person	4,061.8	3,125.9	717.9	197.2	19.3	1.5	
    Studying	1,656.1	1,575.7	74.1	1.7	4.7	0.0	
    Unable to work	547.9	401.0	94.9	46.5	2.5	3.1	
    Housework	54.6	.	.	.	.	.	
    Other	80.3	63.5	10.4	6.4	0.0	0.0	
Women	
    TOTAL	19,954.3	17,076.9	2,403.9	426.6	39.4	7.6	
    Working	7,665.5	7,007.5	618.3	36.2	2.5	1.1	
    Unemployed	2,953.1	2,650.4	284.8	17.8	0.0	0.0	
    Retired person or early retirement person	3,889.4	2,797.8	822.6	234.8	29.2	5.0	
    Studying	1,731.9	1,638.0	90.7	0.0	3.3	0.0	
    Unable to work	328.4	244.2	44.3	39.2	0.8	0.0	
    Housework	3,359.1	2,718.6	536.7	98.6	3.6	1.5	
    Other	26.8	.	.	.	.	.	
Notes:

.Data protected by statistical secrecy

1) Vision limitation using glasses or contact lenses, if used.

 The symbol '.'  shall be deemed as data which cannot be given due to an insufficient sample
 The symbol '..' shall be deemed as information that is not collected for that classification in the table
 The data corresponding to cells with less than 35 thousand persons must be considered with caution, as they may be affected by a high degree of sampling error
Source: National Statistics Institute