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2003 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 1,638 416 25.5 22.2-29.0 1,222 74.5 71.0-77.8
GENDER
Male 513 202 33.2 27.2-39.8 311 66.8 60.2-72.8
Female 1,125 214 19.3 16.1-22.9 911 80.7 77.1-83.9
RACE
White 1,190 306 25.2 21.6-29.2 884 74.8 70.8-78.4
African American 337 74 22.5 16.4-30.1 263 77.5 69.9-83.6
Asian 3 0 0.0 . - . 3 100 . - .
Native American 48 14 43.7 20.0-70.6 34 56.3 29.4-80.0
Other Minorities 55 21 32.5 16.1-54.8 34 67.5 45.2-83.9
HISPANIC
Hispanic 52 22 39.5 21.2-61.3 30 60.5 38.7-78.8
-English Speaking 21 9 43.5 19.4-71.1 12 56.5 28.9-80.6
-Spanish Speaking 31 13 37.8 15.8-66.2 18 62.2 33.8-84.2
Non-Hispanic 1,583 392 24.5 21.3-28.0 1,191 75.5 72.0-78.7
AGE
18-24 100 30 28.5 17.4-42.9 70 71.5 57.1-82.6
25-34 309 62 20.0 14.3-27.3 247 80.0 72.7-85.7
35-44 385 85 22.1 16.8-28.6 300 77.9 71.4-83.2
45-54 434 119 28.4 21.8-36.2 315 71.6 63.8-78.2
55-64 232 70 28.7 21.1-37.7 162 71.3 62.3-78.9
65-74 110 32 32.9 21.3-46.9 78 67.1 53.1-78.7
75+ 58 16 41.0 24.0-60.6 42 59.0 39.4-76.0
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 266 69 32.3 23.4-42.7 197 67.7 57.3-76.6
H.S. or G.E.D. 510 127 26.0 20.4-32.6 383 74.0 67.4-79.6
Some Post-H.S. 473 116 19.5 14.9-25.1 357 80.5 74.9-85.1
College Graduate 388 104 26.5 20.6-33.4 284 73.5 66.6-79.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 242 51 20.9 14.2-29.6 191 79.1 70.4-85.8
$15,000- 24,999 365 79 27.9 20.5-36.8 286 72.1 63.2-79.5
$25,000- 34,999 205 59 25.2 17.3-35.2 146 74.8 64.8-82.7
$35,000- 49,999 216 60 26.2 18.9-35.1 156 73.8 64.9-81.1
$50,000-74,999 153 40 27.0 18.6-37.5 113 73.0 62.5-81.4
$75,000+ 152 40 25.3 15.7-38.0 112 74.7 62.0-84.3
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 85 30 41.2 29.1-54.5 55 58.8 45.5-70.9
Guilford 75 21 19.8 12.1-30.7 54 80.2 69.3-87.9
Mecklenburg 81 20 21.8 13.1-33.9 61 78.2 66.1-86.9
Orange 70 19 44.6 24.9-66.1 51 55.4 33.9-75.1
Wake 82 22 27.7 16.6-42.4 60 72.3 57.6-83.4
Chatham/Lee 56 16 25.9 15.5-40.1 40 74.1 59.9-84.5
Nash/Wilson 71 13 25.9 12.2-46.8 58 74.1 53.2-87.8
Craven/Pamlico 86 26 31.3 19.6-46.1 60 68.7 53.9-80.4
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 77 20 25.6 16.4-37.7 57 74.4 62.3-83.6
Appalachian/Wilkes 75 20 31.6 19.4-47.0 55 68.4 53.0-80.6
Franklin/Gran./Vance 83 22 38.0 22.6-56.4 61 62.0 43.6-77.4
Graham/Swain/Jackson 69 18 28.5 17.8-42.5 51 71.5 57.5-82.2
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 82 17 22.3 13.6-34.2 65 77.7 65.8-86.4
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 64 21 38.8 25.5-54.1 43 61.2 45.9-74.5
Northeast NC I 69 14 22.9 13.6-35.9 55 77.1 64.1-86.4
Northeast NC II 80 17 27.1 16.8-40.5 63 72.9 59.5-83.2
Northeastern Partnership 149 31 25.6 17.9-35.2 118 74.4 64.8-82.1
Mountain AHEC 231 64 24.6 17.1-34.1 167 75.4 65.9-82.9
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC 580 138 26.1 20.5-32.6 442 73.9 67.4-79.5
Piedmont 695 184 24.8 20.5-29.7 511 75.2 70.3-79.5
Western NC 363 94 26.8 19.4-35.6 269 73.2 64.4-80.6

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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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