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BRFSS Survey Results 2003 for Eastern North Carolina**

Violence

Who were all the persons you told about this most recent violence?
Police/law enforcement officer

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,638 482 27.4 24.1-31.1 1,156 72.6 68.9-75.9
-Eastern NC 580 199 31.1 25.3-37.6 381 68.9 62.4-74.7
GENDER
Male 177 38 20.0 11.6-32.4 139 80.0 67.6-88.4
Female 403 161 39.2 32.0-46.9 242 60.8 53.1-68.0
RACE
White 370 110 27.8 20.8-36.0 260 72.2 64.0-79.2
African American 163 71 36.5 26.0-48.5 92 63.5 51.5-74.0
Other Minorities 46 18 44.5 22.7-68.7 28 55.5 31.3-77.3
AGE
18-24 38 10 13.6 5.0-32.2 28 86.4 67.8-95.0
25-34 106 44 31.8 20.4-46.0 62 68.2 54.0-79.6
35-44 144 50 29.6 20.1-41.2 94 70.4 58.8-79.9
45-54 149 48 45.3 30.7-60.7 101 54.7 39.3-69.3
55-64 86 26 27.1 15.2-43.4 60 72.9 56.6-84.8
65-74 36 16 40.8 21.1-63.9 20 59.2 36.1-78.9
75+ 18 4 12.0 3.3-35.0 14 88.0 65.0-96.7
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 105 35 26.3 16.3-39.7 70 73.7 60.3-83.7
H.S. or G.E.D. 189 72 25.9 18.5-35.1 117 74.1 64.9-81.5
Some Post-H.S. 176 52 31.9 21.9-43.9 124 68.1 56.1-78.1
College Graduate 110 40 43.0 27.0-60.7 70 57.0 39.3-73.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 87 39 49.5 33.8-65.3 48 50.5 34.7-66.2
$15,000- 24,999 139 51 24.8 16.1-36.2 88 75.2 63.8-83.9
$25,000- 34,999 82 26 34.2 20.3-51.6 56 65.8 48.4-79.7
$35,000- 49,999 73 15 20.8 9.6-39.3 58 79.2 60.7-90.4
$50,000-74,999 56 13 32.2 16.3-53.7 43 67.8 46.3-83.7
$75,000+ 38 19 54.4 26.9-79.5 19 45.6 20.5-73.1
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 85 21 27.2 17.5-39.5 64 72.8 60.5-82.5
Guilford 75 17 21.8 12.2-35.8 58 78.2 64.2-87.8
Mecklenburg 81 27 28.2 18.1-41.0 54 71.8 59.0-81.9
Orange 70 22 26.1 14.8-41.9 48 73.9 58.1-85.2
Wake 82 20 23.1 13.8-35.9 62 76.9 64.1-86.2
Chatham/Lee 56 15 23.2 13.4-37.1 41 76.8 62.9-86.6
Nash/Wilson 71 24 30.4 19.2-44.6 47 69.6 55.4-80.8
Craven/Pamlico 86 26 34.8 22.3-49.6 60 65.2 50.4-77.7
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 77 20 18.7 11.7-28.7 57 81.3 71.3-88.3
Appalachian/Wilkes 75 13 18.1 9.5-31.8 62 81.9 68.2-90.5
Franklin/Gran./Vance 83 21 24.1 14.5-37.2 62 75.9 62.8-85.5
Graham/Swain/Jackson 69 14 15.5 8.9-25.6 55 84.5 74.4-91.1
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 82 29 31.8 21.5-44.2 53 68.2 55.8-78.5
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 64 21 21.9 13.4-33.6 43 78.1 66.4-86.6
Northeast NC I 69 22 27.5 17.9-39.9 47 72.5 60.1-82.1
Northeast NC II 80 34 38.5 27.6-50.8 46 61.5 49.2-72.4
Northeastern Partnership 149 56 34.6 26.6-43.6 93 65.4 56.4-73.4
Mountain AHEC 231 59 38.5 24.7-54.4 172 61.5 45.6-75.3
NC REGIONS***
Piedmont 695 194 24.0 19.9-28.6 501 76.0 71.4-80.1
Western NC 363 89 33.2 23.1-45.1 274 66.8 54.9-76.9

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.

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