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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?
Health care provider/doctor/nurse/social worker/counselor

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,638 178 9.4 7.5-11.7 1,460 90.6 88.3-92.5
-Eastern NC 580 73 12.6 9.0-17.4 507 87.4 82.6-91.0
GENDER
Male 177 22 9.1 4.9-16.5 155 90.9 83.5-95.1
Female 403 51 15.1 10.2-21.8 352 84.9 78.2-89.8
RACE
White 370 45 14.1 9.4-20.6 325 85.9 79.4-90.6
African American 163 21 8.5 4.7-14.8 142 91.5 85.2-95.3
Other Minorities 46 6 11.6 3.2-34.3 40 88.4 65.7-96.8
AGE
18-24 38 2 6.7 1.1-31.1 36 93.3 68.9-98.9
25-34 106 14 17.4 8.5-32.2 92 82.6 67.8-91.5
35-44 144 13 6.8 3.1-14.6 131 93.2 85.4-96.9
45-54 149 27 14.9 8.6-24.4 122 85.1 75.6-91.4
55-64 86 9 14.8 6.0-32.2 77 85.2 67.8-94.0
65-74 36 6 16.5 5.0-42.5 30 83.5 57.5-95.0
75+ 18 2 20.0 3.8-61.6 16 80.0 38.4-96.2
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 105 19 16.1 8.5-28.4 86 83.9 71.6-91.5
H.S. or G.E.D. 189 19 10.2 5.5-18.1 170 89.8 81.9-94.5
Some Post-H.S. 176 19 11.2 5.5-21.4 157 88.8 78.6-94.5
College Graduate 110 16 15.7 7.2-30.9 94 84.3 69.1-92.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 87 21 34.3 19.7-52.6 66 65.7 47.4-80.3
$15,000- 24,999 139 17 11.3 5.7-21.2 122 88.7 78.8-94.3
$25,000- 34,999 82 6 7.1 2.4-19.3 76 92.9 80.7-97.6
$35,000- 49,999 73 4 8.4 2.0-29.8 69 91.6 70.2-98.0
$50,000-74,999 56 6 4.2 1.6-10.7 50 95.8 89.3-98.4
$75,000+ 38 7 16.7 5.5-41.2 31 83.3 58.8-94.5
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 85 15 16.9 9.7-27.8 70 83.1 72.2-90.3
Guilford 75 4 5.7 1.9-15.8 71 94.3 84.2-98.1
Mecklenburg 81 8 8.1 3.3-18.2 73 91.9 81.8-96.7
Orange 70 9 8.8 3.7-19.8 61 91.2 80.2-96.3
Wake 82 7 9.0 3.4-21.7 75 91.0 78.3-96.6
Chatham/Lee 56 5 7.5 3.0-17.8 51 92.5 82.2-97.0
Nash/Wilson 71 10 13.6 6.9-25.0 61 86.4 75.0-93.1
Craven/Pamlico 86 10 9.1 4.5-17.7 76 90.9 82.3-95.5
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 77 7 9.6 4.4-19.8 70 90.4 80.2-95.6
Appalachian/Wilkes 75 8 13.1 4.4-32.9 67 86.9 67.1-95.6
Franklin/Gran./Vance 83 6 3.2 1.3- 7.6 77 96.8 92.4-98.7
Graham/Swain/Jackson 69 9 10.8 5.4-20.4 60 89.2 79.6-94.6
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 82 10 10.8 5.3-20.8 72 89.2 79.2-94.7
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 64 8 9.7 4.4-19.8 56 90.3 80.2-95.6
Northeast NC I 69 9 10.3 5.1-19.7 60 89.7 80.3-94.9
Northeast NC II 80 9 11.2 5.7-20.8 71 88.8 79.2-94.3
Northeastern Partnership 149 18 10.9 6.6-17.5 131 89.1 82.5-93.4
Mountain AHEC 231 29 7.6 4.7-12.2 202 92.4 87.8-95.3
NC REGIONS***
Piedmont 695 63 8.0 5.6-11.3 632 92.0 88.7-94.4
Western NC 363 42 7.9 5.2-12.0 321 92.1 88.0-94.8

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.

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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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