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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 24 2.9 1.6- 5.1 1,101 97.1 94.9-98.4
RACE
White 803 11 2.1 1.0- 4.7 792 97.9 95.3-99.0
African American 249 7 2.0 0.7- 5.7 242 98.0 94.3-99.3
Asian 3 1 21.6 2.3-76.1 2 78.4 23.9-97.7
Native American 33 2 4.6 1.0-18.0 31 95.4 82.0-99.0
Other Minorities 33 3 14.0 3.4-43.0 30 86.0 57.0-96.6
HISPANIC
Hispanic 28 3 15.9 3.9-47.0 25 84.1 53.0-96.1
-English Speaking 12 1 13.4 1.8-56.6 11 86.6 43.4-98.2
-Spanish Speaking 16 2 17.2 2.8-59.9 14 82.8 40.1-97.2
Non-Hispanic 1,094 21 2.2 1.2- 4.0 1,073 97.8 96.0-98.8
AGE
18-24 60 1 6.8 1.0-34.8 59 93.2 65.2-99.0
25-34 197 10 4.0 1.5-10.2 187 96.0 89.8-98.5
35-44 266 8 3.1 1.2- 7.7 258 96.9 92.3-98.8
45-54 302 5 2.7 0.9- 8.0 297 97.3 92.0-99.1
55-64 166 0 0.0 . - . 166 100 . - .
65-74 83 0 0.0 . - . 83 100 . - .
75+ 43 0 0.0 . - . 43 100 . - .
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 185 3 5.6 1.5-18.9 182 94.4 81.1-98.5
H.S. or G.E.D. 343 5 0.7 0.2- 2.3 338 99.3 97.7-99.8
Some Post-H.S. 325 10 3.9 1.8- 8.5 315 96.1 91.5-98.2
College Graduate 271 6 2.5 0.8- 7.4 265 97.5 92.6-99.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 182 4 1.3 0.5- 3.8 178 98.7 96.2-99.5
$15,000- 24,999 269 6 5.7 1.9-15.6 263 94.3 84.4-98.1
$25,000- 34,999 139 4 2.5 0.7- 8.6 135 97.5 91.4-99.3
$35,000- 49,999 127 0 0.0 . - . 127 100 . - .
$50,000-74,999 91 4 1.4 0.5- 4.4 87 98.6 95.6-99.5
$75,000+ 89 3 4.5 1.3-14.8 86 95.5 85.2-98.7
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 56 2 7.0 1.6-25.7 54 93.0 74.3-98.4
Guilford 53 0 0.0 . - . 53 100 . - .
Mecklenburg 53 1 3.6 0.5-21.3 52 96.4 78.7-99.5
Orange 48 0 0.0 . - . 48 100 . - .
Wake 52 1 0.6 0.1- 4.5 51 99.4 95.5-99.9
Chatham/Lee 34 3 9.1 2.5-28.0 31 90.9 72.0-97.5
Nash/Wilson 52 0 0.0 . - . 52 100 . - .
Craven/Pamlico 56 1 1.7 0.2-11.2 55 98.3 88.8-99.8
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 48 0 0.0 . - . 48 100 . - .
Appalachian/Wilkes 55 1 11.8 1.8-49.2 54 88.2 50.8-98.2
Franklin/Gran./Vance 59 0 0.0 . - . 59 100 . - .
Graham/Swain/Jackson 45 0 0.0 . - . 45 100 . - .
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 57 1 0.9 0.1- 6.2 56 99.1 93.8-99.9
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 42 4 8.5 2.8-23.3 38 91.5 76.7-97.2
Northeast NC I 52 2 3.5 0.7-15.4 50 96.5 84.6-99.3
Northeast NC II 56 0 0.0 . - . 56 100 . - .
Northeastern Partnership 108 2 1.3 0.3- 6.1 106 98.7 93.9-99.7
Mountain AHEC 156 2 2.0 0.5- 8.6 154 98.0 91.4-99.5
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC 403 10 1.9 0.8- 4.8 393 98.1 95.2-99.2
Piedmont 471 10 3.3 1.4- 7.5 461 96.7 92.5-98.6
Western NC 251 4 3.2 1.0- 9.5 247 96.8 90.5-99.0

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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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