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BRFSS Survey Results 2003 for Franklin/Granville/Vance Counties

Disability

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 9,398 1,979 17.9 16.8-19.1 7,419 82.1 80.9-83.2
-Franklin/Gran./Vance 477 110 18.9 14.6-24.2 367 81.1 75.8-85.4
GENDER
Male 177 41 15.9 10.4-23.6 136 84.1 76.4-89.6
Female 300 69 22.1 16.4-29.2 231 77.9 70.8-83.6
RACE
White 290 73 23.6 17.6-30.9 217 76.4 69.1-82.4
Other 186 37 13.0 8.2-19.8 149 87.0 80.2-91.8
AGE
18-44 188 25 12.0 7.1-19.7 163 88.0 80.3-92.9
45+ 289 85 26.8 20.7-33.9 204 73.2 66.1-79.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 288 73 19.8 14.1-27.1 215 80.2 72.9-85.9
Some College + 185 37 17.9 11.7-26.5 148 82.1 73.5-88.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 269 57 17.3 11.8-24.6 212 82.7 75.4-88.2
$50,000+ 89 14 10.1 5.5-17.9 75 89.9 82.1-94.5
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 447 106 20.6 16.8-25.0 341 79.4 75.0-83.2
Guilford 446 72 14.6 11.3-18.8 374 85.4 81.2-88.7
Mecklenburg 447 74 14.0 10.9-17.9 373 86.0 82.1-89.1
Orange 449 70 15.4 9.2-24.8 379 84.6 75.2-90.8
Wake 452 70 13.5 10.3-17.4 382 86.5 82.6-89.7
Chatham/Lee 396 68 12.4 9.4-16.2 328 87.6 83.8-90.6
Nash/Wilson 378 86 20.1 16.0-25.0 292 79.9 75.0-84.0
Craven/Pamlico 453 112 21.8 17.9-26.3 341 78.2 73.7-82.1
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 436 89 20.6 15.6-26.8 347 79.4 73.2-84.4
Appalachian/Wilkes 455 100 19.0 15.1-23.6 355 81.0 76.4-84.9
Graham/Swain/Jackson 425 102 17.1 12.8-22.5 323 82.9 77.5-87.2
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 473 116 23.0 19.0-27.7 357 77.0 72.3-81.0
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 416 104 21.9 17.7-26.8 312 78.1 73.2-82.3
Northeast NC I 459 99 21.8 17.4-26.9 360 78.2 73.1-82.6
Northeast NC II 509 119 21.1 17.4-25.5 390 78.9 74.5-82.6
Northeastern Partnership 968 218 21.4 18.4-24.6 750 78.6 75.4-81.6
Mountain AHEC 1,300 322 22.2 19.2-25.5 978 77.8 74.5-80.8
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC 3,297 747 19.8 17.7-22.1 2,550 80.2 77.9-82.3
Piedmont 4,033 731 15.5 14.0-17.2 3,302 84.5 82.8-86.0
Western NC 2,068 501 23.5 20.6-26.6 1,567 76.5 73.4-79.4

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^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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