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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 1,125 123 9.3 7.3-11.8 1,002 90.7 88.2-92.7
RACE
White 803 94 10.7 8.1-14.1 709 89.3 85.9-91.9
African American 249 25 7.8 4.7-12.9 224 92.2 87.1-95.3
Asian 3 1 25.2 2.8-80.0 2 74.8 20.0-97.2
Native American 33 2 1.6 0.3- 7.6 31 98.4 92.4-99.7
Other Minorities 33 1 0.9 0.1- 6.7 32 99.1 93.3-99.9
HISPANIC
Hispanic 28 0 0.0 . - . 28 100 . - .
-English Speaking 12 0 0.0 . - . 12 100 . - .
-Spanish Speaking 16 0 0.0 . - . 16 100 . - .
Non-Hispanic 1,094 123 9.8 7.7-12.5 971 90.2 87.5-92.3
AGE
18-24 60 4 8.2 2.1-26.9 56 91.8 73.1-97.9
25-34 197 17 5.2 2.4-10.9 180 94.8 89.1-97.6
35-44 266 30 9.1 5.6-14.3 236 90.9 85.7-94.4
45-54 302 39 11.2 7.5-16.4 263 88.8 83.6-92.5
55-64 166 19 17.8 10.2-29.2 147 82.2 70.8-89.8
65-74 83 10 9.4 4.1-20.2 73 90.6 79.8-95.9
75+ 43 2 1.2 0.3- 5.7 41 98.8 94.3-99.7
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 185 18 6.9 3.6-12.8 167 93.1 87.2-96.4
H.S. or G.E.D. 343 33 8.5 5.4-13.2 310 91.5 86.8-94.6
Some Post-H.S. 325 37 11.4 7.4-17.2 288 88.6 82.8-92.6
College Graduate 271 35 9.5 5.7-15.5 236 90.5 84.5-94.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 182 26 16.7 9.8-27.0 156 83.3 73.0-90.2
$15,000- 24,999 269 26 7.8 4.4-13.5 243 92.2 86.5-95.6
$25,000- 34,999 139 13 6.6 3.1-13.4 126 93.4 86.6-96.9
$35,000- 49,999 127 14 10.2 4.8-20.4 113 89.8 79.6-95.2
$50,000-74,999 91 16 15.5 8.2-27.3 75 84.5 72.7-91.8
$75,000+ 89 15 10.8 5.3-20.8 74 89.2 79.2-94.7
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 56 11 25.0 13.5-41.6 45 75.0 58.4-86.5
Guilford 53 4 5.5 1.8-15.6 49 94.5 84.4-98.2
Mecklenburg 53 9 12.2 5.9-23.7 44 87.8 76.3-94.1
Orange 48 3 4.3 1.2-14.3 45 95.7 85.7-98.8
Wake 52 4 4.3 1.5-11.8 48 95.7 88.2-98.5
Chatham/Lee 34 4 9.8 3.5-24.5 30 90.2 75.5-96.5
Nash/Wilson 52 4 4.3 1.5-11.7 48 95.7 88.3-98.5
Craven/Pamlico 56 7 11.8 4.6-27.1 49 88.2 72.9-95.4
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 48 5 10.2 4.0-23.8 43 89.8 76.2-96.0
Appalachian/Wilkes 55 7 16.4 6.4-36.0 48 83.6 64.0-93.6
Franklin/Gran./Vance 59 3 5.1 1.4-16.4 56 94.9 83.6-98.6
Graham/Swain/Jackson 45 5 9.1 3.5-21.4 40 90.9 78.6-96.5
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 57 4 7.2 2.4-19.7 53 92.8 80.3-97.6
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 42 4 8.9 2.9-24.1 38 91.1 75.9-97.1
Northeast NC I 52 10 16.9 8.7-30.2 42 83.1 69.8-91.3
Northeast NC II 56 9 14.9 7.4-27.8 47 85.1 72.2-92.6
Northeastern Partnership 108 19 15.7 9.6-24.6 89 84.3 75.4-90.4
Mountain AHEC 156 20 11.3 6.6-18.6 136 88.7 81.4-93.4
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC 403 53 14.0 9.5-20.1 350 86.0 79.9-90.5
Piedmont 471 38 6.0 4.0- 8.9 433 94.0 91.1-96.0
Western NC 251 32 11.6 7.5-17.6 219 88.4 82.4-92.5

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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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