Among all reasons U.S. adults say they use vision correction,18 percent of them say they use it specifically to correct hyperopia (farsightedness)

Total lens pair sales are down 3 percent from 76.1 million total lens pairs sold in 12ME Dec. '03 to 73.7 million lenses sold in 12ME Dec '04. PAL sales, however, are up 2.2 percent to 18.4 million pairs sold in 12ME Dec. '04 from 18.0 million PAL pairs sold in 12ME Dec. '03

71%

71 percent of all plano sunglass unit sales in the US were made at a grocery/drug/convenience/variety/mass merchandising store. This retail group comprises 32 percent of plano sunglass dollar sales

7 percent of contact lens users say they wear rigid (hard) lenses.This compares to 89 percent wearing soft contact lenses. The rest of contact lens wearers either don't know or wear both types

Among all those having visioncorrection surgery between the months of July and Dec. in 2004, 64 percent have been males. 56 percent of all those having surgery in that same time period were ages 18-34x

Source: Jobson Optical Research/VisionWatch
Total Annual VisionWatch Sample Size: 100,000 consumer respondents per year.
* All data is for the 12 ME (months ending) December 2004.
Refractive Surgery data is for the 6ME December 2004 and Contact Lens data is for the 6ME December 2004.