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2003 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Violence-FEMALES

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 1,125 214 19.3 16.1-22.9 911 80.7 77.1-83.9
RACE
White 803 155 19.8 16.1-24.1 648 80.2 75.9-83.9
African American 249 41 14.4 9.5-21.1 208 85.6 78.9-90.5
Asian 3 0 0.0 . - . 3 100 . - .
Native American 33 6 16.2 5.7-37.8 27 83.8 62.2-94.3
Other Minorities 33 11 33.9 15.0-59.9 22 66.1 40.1-85.0
HISPANIC
Hispanic 28 10 37.4 16.7-64.2 18 62.6 35.8-83.3
-English Speaking 12 3 34.2 9.3-72.5 9 65.8 27.5-90.7
-Spanish Speaking 16 7 39.0 13.4-72.5 9 61.0 27.5-86.6
Non-Hispanic 1,094 202 18.0 15.0-21.4 892 82.0 78.6-85.0
AGE
18-24 60 12 17.0 8.0-32.7 48 83.0 67.3-92.0
25-34 197 27 16.9 10.2-26.7 170 83.1 73.3-89.8
35-44 266 42 16.1 10.8-23.2 224 83.9 76.8-89.2
45-54 302 61 19.3 13.9-26.1 241 80.7 73.9-86.1
55-64 166 38 21.1 13.5-31.4 128 78.9 68.6-86.5
65-74 83 21 29.4 17.0-45.8 62 70.6 54.2-83.0
75+ 43 11 40.2 21.8-61.9 32 59.8 38.1-78.2
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 185 37 26.3 17.3-37.8 148 73.7 62.2-82.7
H.S. or G.E.D. 343 55 17.2 12.2-23.7 288 82.8 76.3-87.8
Some Post-H.S. 325 61 13.6 9.5-19.0 264 86.4 81.0-90.5
College Graduate 271 61 24.1 17.4-32.2 210 75.9 67.8-82.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 182 27 14.7 8.9-23.3 155 85.3 76.7-91.1
$15,000- 24,999 269 44 18.6 12.7-26.4 225 81.4 73.6-87.3
$25,000- 34,999 139 30 19.5 11.0-32.2 109 80.5 67.8-89.0
$35,000- 49,999 127 22 18.8 11.0-30.2 105 81.2 69.8-89.0
$50,000-74,999 91 17 17.6 9.6-29.9 74 82.4 70.1-90.4
$75,000+ 89 21 21.0 11.7-34.8 68 79.0 65.2-88.3
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 56 15 26.0 14.8-41.4 41 74.0 58.6-85.2
Guilford 53 14 23.5 13.3-38.2 39 76.5 61.8-86.7
Mecklenburg 53 8 11.8 5.6-23.1 45 88.2 76.9-94.4
Orange 48 10 40.1 14.5-72.5 38 59.9 27.5-85.5
Wake 52 13 26.0 15.1-41.1 39 74.0 58.9-84.9
Chatham/Lee 34 9 24.1 12.4-41.5 25 75.9 58.5-87.6
Nash/Wilson 52 6 10.2 4.2-22.6 46 89.8 77.4-95.8
Craven/Pamlico 56 12 17.9 9.6-30.8 44 82.1 69.2-90.4
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 48 8 17.3 8.6-31.8 40 82.7 68.2-91.4
Appalachian/Wilkes 55 11 16.3 8.2-29.6 44 83.7 70.4-91.8
Franklin/Gran./Vance 59 11 14.6 7.8-25.8 48 85.4 74.2-92.2
Graham/Swain/Jackson 45 7 18.7 7.9-38.0 38 81.3 62.0-92.1
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 57 7 12.4 5.3-26.4 50 87.6 73.6-94.7
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 42 11 32.4 17.2-52.5 31 67.6 47.5-82.8
Northeast NC I 52 7 15.7 7.4-30.4 45 84.3 69.6-92.6
Northeast NC II 56 7 20.9 9.5-40.0 49 79.1 60.0-90.5
Northeastern Partnership 108 14 19.0 10.5-31.8 94 81.0 68.2-89.5
Mountain AHEC 156 31 19.3 12.5-28.6 125 80.7 71.4-87.5
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC 403 66 16.9 12.1-23.1 337 83.1 76.9-87.9
Piedmont 471 103 21.4 16.8-26.9 368 78.6 73.1-83.2
Western NC 251 45 16.3 11.1-23.4 206 83.7 76.6-88.9

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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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