SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

BRFSS Survey Results 2003 for Eastern North Carolina**

Violence

Who were all the persons you told about this most recent violence?
Friends/family members

Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,638 918 58.2 54.3-62.0 720 41.8 38.0-45.7
-Eastern NC 580 340 57.1 50.4-63.6 240 42.9 36.4-49.6
GENDER
Male 177 70 43.6 32.1-55.9 107 56.4 44.1-67.9
Female 403 270 66.9 59.5-73.5 133 33.1 26.5-40.5
RACE
White 370 220 59.9 51.6-67.7 150 40.1 32.3-48.4
African American 163 96 51.3 39.1-63.4 67 48.7 36.6-60.9
Other Minorities 46 24 49.8 26.5-73.2 22 50.2 26.8-73.5
AGE
18-24 38 19 49.3 26.6-72.3 19 50.7 27.7-73.4
25-34 106 71 65.1 49.6-77.9 35 34.9 22.1-50.4
35-44 144 83 58.0 45.9-69.3 61 42.0 30.7-54.1
45-54 149 98 66.6 52.5-78.3 51 33.4 21.7-47.5
55-64 86 44 51.0 35.0-66.8 42 49.0 33.2-65.0
65-74 36 15 31.9 15.1-55.4 21 68.1 44.6-84.9
75+ 18 9 23.3 8.8-48.9 9 76.7 51.1-91.2
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 105 59 41.6 27.5-57.3 46 58.4 42.7-72.5
H.S. or G.E.D. 189 121 64.8 53.5-74.6 68 35.2 25.4-46.5
Some Post-H.S. 176 96 55.8 43.9-67.1 80 44.2 32.9-56.1
College Graduate 110 64 59.8 43.4-74.3 46 40.2 25.7-56.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 87 55 54.9 38.4-70.4 32 45.1 29.6-61.6
$15,000- 24,999 139 88 55.9 41.8-69.1 51 44.1 30.9-58.2
$25,000- 34,999 82 45 68.3 52.7-80.6 37 31.7 19.4-47.3
$35,000- 49,999 73 44 66.0 48.8-79.9 29 34.0 20.1-51.2
$50,000-74,999 56 33 70.3 54.0-82.7 23 29.7 17.3-46.0
$75,000+ 38 25 63.1 34.5-84.8 13 36.9 15.2-65.5
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 85 43 47.7 35.6-60.2 42 52.3 39.8-64.4
Guilford 75 42 66.1 52.3-77.7 33 33.9 22.3-47.7
Mecklenburg 81 49 64.1 50.2-75.9 32 35.9 24.1-49.8
Orange 70 38 39.8 24.1-57.8 32 60.2 42.2-75.9
Wake 82 54 71.8 59.4-81.6 28 28.2 18.4-40.6
Chatham/Lee 56 25 48.2 33.5-63.2 31 51.8 36.8-66.5
Nash/Wilson 71 43 55.2 39.0-70.4 28 44.8 29.6-61.0
Craven/Pamlico 86 49 48.3 35.0-61.9 37 51.7 38.1-65.0
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 77 40 54.4 41.6-66.6 37 45.6 33.4-58.4
Appalachian/Wilkes 75 39 52.1 37.7-66.2 36 47.9 33.8-62.3
Franklin/Gran./Vance 83 41 39.8 26.3-55.2 42 60.2 44.8-73.7
Graham/Swain/Jackson 69 38 55.1 41.6-67.8 31 44.9 32.2-58.4
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 82 55 63.9 50.9-75.1 27 36.1 24.9-49.1
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 64 29 42.2 28.9-56.7 35 57.8 43.3-71.1
Northeast NC I 69 42 52.8 39.3-65.9 27 47.2 34.1-60.7
Northeast NC II 80 43 52.2 39.8-64.4 37 47.8 35.6-60.2
Northeastern Partnership 149 85 52.4 43.0-61.7 64 47.6 38.3-57.0
Mountain AHEC 231 127 52.4 38.8-65.7 104 47.6 34.3-61.2
NC REGIONS***
Piedmont 695 378 60.4 55.0-65.5 317 39.6 34.5-45.0
Western NC 363 200 51.8 41.7-61.7 163 48.2 38.3-58.3

Due to the small number of respondents to this question, no further breakdowns are available for Eastern North Carolina**. Please refer to the North Carolina table for statewide breakdowns.

Back to Violence.

Asked only of those who have ever had violence done to them by someone else

^Use caution in interpreting percentages with a numerator of less than 20. N = numerator, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

** Northeast NC I: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, and Warren counties.
Northeast NC II: Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Northeast NC I and II regions combined.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (AHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

*** 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, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 16JUN04.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook