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BRFSS Survey Results 2002 for Mecklenburg County

Reaction to Race

How do OTHER PEOPLE usually classify you in this country. Would you say White, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, American Indian or Alaska Native, multiracial or some other group?*

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  Total
Respond.#
White Black or African American Hispanic or Latino American Indian Other
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,441 4,932 72.7 70.9-74.5 965 17.1 15.6-18.7 226 5.9 4.8- 7.2 154 1.5 1.1- 2.0 164 2.8 2.2- 3.5
Mecklenburg County 428 257 53.2 46.9-59.3 122 26.6 22.0-31.9 26 13.3 8.5-20.2 4 1.1 0.4- 3.3 19 5.8 3.2-10.0
GENDER
Male 154 91 54.1 43.8-64.0 39 21.2 15.1-29.0 15 18.4 10.4-30.4 3 1.5 0.4- 5.2 6 4.7 1.6-13.0
Female 274 166 52.2 45.3-58.9 83 32.1 26.1-38.9 11 8.1 4.1-15.6 1 0.8 0.1- 5.2 13 6.8 3.6-12.4
RACE
White 259 252 93.1 81.2-97.7 0 0.0 . - . 3 5.6 1.5-19.0 0 0.0 . - . 4 1.3 0.5- 3.8
Other 167 5 2.2 0.9- 5.4 122 61.1 51.1-70.3 22 22.7 14.8-33.2 4 2.6 0.9- 7.3 14 11.3 6.0-20.3
AGE
18-44 230 122 47.1 38.7-55.7 70 25.7 19.6-32.8 22 18.6 11.7-28.4 2 1.2 0.3- 4.7 14 7.4 3.8-13.8
45+ 194 134 65.4 57.5-72.6 49 27.8 21.2-35.5 4 3.0 1.1- 8.0 2 1.1 0.2- 4.4 5 2.7 1.1- 6.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 132 69 40.0 30.0-50.9 36 20.9 14.1-29.8 22 35.1 23.6-48.7 2 1.7 0.4- 6.9 3 2.3 0.7- 7.3
Some College + 295 188 60.5 53.6-67.1 85 29.7 24.0-36.1 4 1.2 0.4- 3.3 2 0.8 0.2- 3.9 16 7.7 4.1-14.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 186 84 37.9 28.6-48.2 74 33.6 25.6-42.7 18 20.0 11.5-32.4 2 1.7 0.4- 6.8 8 6.8 2.8-15.8
$50,000+ 146 113 72.7 63.3-80.4 23 17.7 11.7-25.8 2 2.9 0.6-13.1 0 0.0 . - . 8 6.7 3.0-14.2
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 392 355 89.2 84.9-92.4 20 6.0 3.7- 9.6 6 1.5 0.7- 3.4 4 1.6 0.5- 4.7 7 1.8 0.8- 3.8
Forsyth 455 336 72.3 67.2-76.9 89 19.3 15.4-23.8 14 4.4 2.5- 7.7 4 1.3 0.5- 3.5 12 2.7 1.4- 5.0
Guilford 401 273 62.0 55.7-68.0 107 29.3 23.8-35.4 12 5.3 2.7- 9.9 3 0.9 0.2- 3.8 6 2.5 1.0- 6.3
Henderson/Transylvania 454 419 86.3 78.9-91.4 12 5.4 1.9-14.1 13 5.3 2.9- 9.6 1 0.5 0.1- 3.5 9 2.5 1.1- 5.6
Orange 426 348 79.3 73.7-84.0 39 9.8 6.7-14.2 17 5.4 3.1- 9.2 1 0.1 0.0- 1.0 21 5.3 3.3- 8.3
Pitt 406 280 65.2 59.3-70.6 107 29.2 24.1-34.9 8 1.7 0.7- 3.7 3 0.6 0.2- 2.0 8 3.3 1.5- 7.2
Randolph 406 363 88.9 84.7-92.1 17 3.3 1.8- 5.8 20 6.5 4.0-10.3 2 0.4 0.1- 1.7 4 0.9 0.3- 2.5
Robeson 419 184 39.1 33.4-45.1 83 19.0 14.2-24.9 25 10.5 6.8-16.1 109 27.0 22.0-32.7 18 4.4 2.5- 7.5
Wake 412 304 70.3 64.4-75.6 68 16.4 12.2-21.7 12 4.9 2.7- 8.6 4 1.8 0.7- 5.0 24 6.6 4.2-10.1
Western NC 635 591 92.0 88.8-94.3 22 2.8 1.8- 4.5 11 2.9 1.4- 5.7 4 0.7 0.2- 1.8 7 1.7 0.7- 3.7
Piedmont NC 846 684 76.3 72.0-80.2 103 14.2 11.0-18.1 36 6.3 4.3- 9.1 7 1.5 0.7- 3.2 16 1.7 0.9- 3.2
Eastern NC 761 538 69.1 64.7-73.1 176 22.6 19.2-26.4 26 5.5 3.2- 9.2 8 0.6 0.3- 1.3 13 2.2 1.2- 4.2

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*Only four most common categories presented and the remaining categories are collapsed into Other category

#Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50. N = Cell Size, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics.

** Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, Wilson
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Montgomery, Moore, Person, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Warren, Yadkin
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Watauga, Wilkes, Yancey

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