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Table 1 Description of the colour vision and social background of the participants by sex (128 men and 291 women)

From: Development and validation of a questionnaire assessing the quality of life impact of Colour Blindness (CBQoL)

 

Colour vision category

χ 2

CB (N = 65)

Borderline (N = 22)

Normal vision (N = 332)

Sex

Male

 

57 (88%)

6 (27%)

65 (20%)

118.984a

Female

 

8 (12%)

16 (73%)

267 (80%)

 

SEC

Managerial

38 (65%)

10 (56%)

183 (68%)

4.328b

Intermediate

5 (9%)

0 (0%)

24 (9%)

Manual

15 (26%)

8 (44%)

63 (23%)

  1. CB colour blind (Ishihara score 0–9), Borderline normal vision (Ishihara score 10–12), Normal vision (Ishihara score 13–15). SEC Socioeconomic class. Note 17% (73 of 419) of SEC responses were missing or uncategorisable, thus totals do not add up to Ns for each group as a whole
  2. a Sig value: p = 1.5 × 10−26
  3. b Correction with Fisher’s exact test, as three cells had expected frequencies of less than 5