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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 1,125 375 32.8 28.9-36.9 750 67.2 63.1-71.1
RACE
White 803 232 27.9 23.7-32.6 571 72.1 67.4-76.3
African American 249 118 48.4 39.6-57.2 131 51.6 42.8-60.4
Asian 3 1 25.2 2.8-80.0 2 74.8 20.0-97.2
Native American 33 17 73.7 50.8-88.3 16 26.3 11.7-49.2
Other Minorities 33 7 17.5 6.1-40.9 26 82.5 59.1-93.9
HISPANIC
Hispanic 28 6 16.5 5.2-41.5 22 83.5 58.5-94.8
-English Speaking 12 4 44.9 14.3-79.9 8 55.1 20.1-85.7
-Spanish Speaking 16 2 2.9 0.6-12.4 14 97.1 87.6-99.4
Non-Hispanic 1,094 369 33.8 29.8-38.0 725 66.2 62.0-70.2
AGE
18-24 60 17 24.2 12.3-42.1 43 75.8 57.9-87.7
25-34 197 80 36.7 27.7-46.8 117 63.3 53.2-72.3
35-44 266 96 33.1 25.6-41.5 170 66.9 58.5-74.4
45-54 302 95 36.6 29.0-44.9 207 63.4 55.1-71.0
55-64 166 52 32.0 22.6-43.2 114 68.0 56.8-77.4
65-74 83 24 26.8 16.2-41.0 59 73.2 59.0-83.8
75+ 43 9 18.5 7.0-40.7 34 81.5 59.3-93.0
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 185 56 25.7 17.9-35.5 129 74.3 64.5-82.1
H.S. or G.E.D. 343 128 33.5 26.9-40.9 215 66.5 59.1-73.1
Some Post-H.S. 325 113 39.0 31.4-47.3 212 61.0 52.7-68.6
College Graduate 271 77 29.2 22.0-37.6 194 70.8 62.4-78.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 182 67 42.4 32.5-53.0 115 57.6 47.0-67.5
$15,000- 24,999 269 102 36.6 28.5-45.5 167 63.4 54.5-71.5
$25,000- 34,999 139 44 27.7 18.6-39.2 95 72.3 60.8-81.4
$35,000- 49,999 127 40 33.3 22.7-45.9 87 66.7 54.1-77.3
$50,000-74,999 91 24 39.7 26.0-55.2 67 60.3 44.8-74.0
$75,000+ 89 27 26.5 16.5-39.6 62 73.5 60.4-83.5
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 56 16 33.9 21.1-49.7 40 66.1 50.3-78.9
Guilford 53 14 22.9 12.9-37.4 39 77.1 62.6-87.1
Mecklenburg 53 20 42.7 28.9-57.8 33 57.3 42.2-71.1
Orange 48 16 27.5 12.9-49.2 32 72.5 50.8-87.1
Wake 52 15 28.4 17.0-43.4 37 71.6 56.6-83.0
Chatham/Lee 34 11 30.6 16.6-49.5 23 69.4 50.5-83.4
Nash/Wilson 52 17 32.6 19.9-48.5 35 67.4 51.5-80.1
Craven/Pamlico 56 18 29.6 18.4-43.9 38 70.4 56.1-81.6
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 48 17 29.6 18.1-44.4 31 70.4 55.6-81.9
Appalachian/Wilkes 55 9 19.3 8.5-38.2 46 80.7 61.8-91.5
Franklin/Gran./Vance 59 15 35.5 22.2-51.5 44 64.5 48.5-77.8
Graham/Swain/Jackson 45 12 21.9 12.1-36.4 33 78.1 63.6-87.9
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 57 22 37.0 24.2-51.8 35 63.0 48.2-75.8
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 42 19 34.3 20.5-51.4 23 65.7 48.6-79.5
Northeast NC I 52 19 35.0 22.5-50.0 33 65.0 50.0-77.5
Northeast NC II 56 29 51.0 36.1-65.6 27 49.0 34.4-63.9
Northeastern Partnership 108 48 45.0 34.5-55.9 60 55.0 44.1-65.5
Mountain AHEC 156 42 29.6 20.4-40.7 114 70.4 59.3-79.6
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC 403 161 39.2 32.0-46.9 242 60.8 53.1-68.0
Piedmont 471 149 30.1 24.8-35.9 322 69.9 64.1-75.2
Western NC 251 65 29.4 21.8-38.4 186 70.6 61.6-78.2

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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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