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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 1,125 132 11.1 8.6-14.2 993 88.9 85.8-91.4
RACE
White 803 101 12.2 9.2-16.1 702 87.8 83.9-90.8
African American 249 24 8.3 4.8-14.1 225 91.7 85.9-95.2
Asian 3 2 74.8 20.0-97.2 1 25.2 2.8-80.0
Native American 33 1 2.5 0.3-16.3 32 97.5 83.7-99.7
Other Minorities 33 4 11.5 2.3-41.9 29 88.5 58.1-97.7
HISPANIC
Hispanic 28 2 11.9 2.0-46.7 26 88.1 53.3-98.0
-English Speaking 12 1 3.4 0.4-22.4 11 96.6 77.6-99.6
-Spanish Speaking 16 1 15.9 2.3-60.7 15 84.1 39.3-97.7
Non-Hispanic 1,094 130 11.1 8.6-14.2 964 88.9 85.8-91.4
AGE
18-24 60 4 13.1 3.7-36.8 56 86.9 63.2-96.3
25-34 197 23 11.6 6.4-20.0 174 88.4 80.0-93.6
35-44 266 33 9.9 6.1-15.8 233 90.1 84.2-93.9
45-54 302 46 12.9 8.5-19.0 256 87.1 81.0-91.5
55-64 166 12 10.5 4.9-21.2 154 89.5 78.8-95.1
65-74 83 8 5.4 2.2-12.5 75 94.6 87.5-97.8
75+ 43 5 11.5 3.5-31.8 38 88.5 68.2-96.5
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 185 23 15.1 8.2-26.0 162 84.9 74.0-91.8
H.S. or G.E.D. 343 33 9.8 6.2-15.2 310 90.2 84.8-93.8
Some Post-H.S. 325 41 10.5 6.5-16.4 284 89.5 83.6-93.5
College Graduate 271 35 10.7 6.3-17.5 236 89.3 82.5-93.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 182 32 23.7 14.9-35.5 150 76.3 64.5-85.1
$15,000- 24,999 269 35 15.1 9.0-24.2 234 84.9 75.8-91.0
$25,000- 34,999 139 13 6.7 3.1-13.9 126 93.3 86.1-96.9
$35,000- 49,999 127 12 8.9 3.7-19.7 115 91.1 80.3-96.3
$50,000-74,999 91 12 6.3 2.5-14.8 79 93.7 85.2-97.5
$75,000+ 89 14 15.7 8.0-28.5 75 84.3 71.5-92.0
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 56 12 25.3 14.1-41.3 44 74.7 58.7-85.9
Guilford 53 2 3.4 0.7-14.7 51 96.6 85.3-99.3
Mecklenburg 53 4 4.1 1.5-10.8 49 95.9 89.2-98.5
Orange 48 6 7.1 2.6-17.8 42 92.9 82.2-97.4
Wake 52 5 6.6 2.5-16.2 47 93.4 83.8-97.5
Chatham/Lee 34 4 10.4 3.7-25.7 30 89.6 74.3-96.3
Nash/Wilson 52 8 16.1 7.7-30.6 44 83.9 69.4-92.3
Craven/Pamlico 56 7 12.7 5.6-26.2 49 87.3 73.8-94.4
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 48 5 10.4 4.2-23.5 43 89.6 76.5-95.8
Appalachian/Wilkes 55 7 19.9 6.6-46.7 48 80.1 53.3-93.4
Franklin/Gran./Vance 59 5 5.7 2.2-13.7 54 94.3 86.3-97.8
Graham/Swain/Jackson 45 9 19.1 9.6-34.2 36 80.9 65.8-90.4
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 57 4 5.7 2.1-14.9 53 94.3 85.1-97.9
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 42 6 12.1 4.9-26.9 36 87.9 73.1-95.1
Northeast NC I 52 5 6.3 2.5-14.8 47 93.7 85.2-97.5
Northeast NC II 56 7 13.1 6.1-26.0 49 86.9 74.0-93.9
Northeastern Partnership 108 12 10.6 5.7-18.9 96 89.4 81.1-94.3
Mountain AHEC 156 25 11.6 7.1-18.3 131 88.4 81.7-92.9
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC 403 51 15.1 10.2-21.8 352 84.9 78.2-89.8
Piedmont 471 44 8.5 5.5-12.8 427 91.5 87.2-94.5
Western NC 251 37 12.4 8.0-18.6 214 87.6 81.4-92.0

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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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