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2003 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Violence-WHITES

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  Total
Respond.^
Current husband,/wife or partner Ex-husband,/wife or ex-partner Relative /or acquaintance Stranger
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 1,137 178 13.4 10.9-16.3 576 45.7 41.0-50.5 227 22.8 18.8-27.4 156 18.1 14.5-22.3
GENDER
Male 362 30 6.4 4.0-10.3 67 21.7 14.6-31.0 130 36.1 28.4-44.5 135 35.8 28.4-44.0
Female 775 148 19.2 15.6-23.5 509 65.9 60.9-70.7 97 11.7 8.6-15.6 21 3.1 1.8- 5.5
AGE
18-24 68 14 7.8 4.0-14.8 26 40.5 24.4-59.0 20 29.4 15.5-48.7 8 22.2 11.0-39.9
25-34 202 29 13.4 8.1-21.4 97 45.8 34.7-57.2 41 21.2 13.7-31.3 35 19.7 12.6-29.4
35-44 273 39 12.7 8.2-19.1 145 53.5 44.9-61.8 59 22.0 15.2-30.8 30 11.9 7.5-18.3
45-54 303 47 12.8 8.7-18.4 152 41.4 33.0-50.4 66 27.8 19.9-37.3 38 18.0 10.7-28.8
55-64 162 28 19.7 12.1-30.3 87 47.3 36.1-58.7 23 10.3 5.6-18.1 24 22.8 13.6-35.5
65-74 78 12 15.0 6.5-31.0 46 46.4 31.1-62.5 11 24.2 10.9-45.3 9 14.4 5.8-31.3
75+ 47 9 24.4 10.7-46.5 21 38.9 21.5-59.6 6 12.3 3.7-33.7 11 24.5 10.1-48.4
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 149 26 11.9 6.7-20.4 77 48.1 33.2-63.3 23 22.9 12.2-38.8 23 17.0 9.2-29.4
H.S. or G.E.D. 341 57 15.9 11.1-22.1 171 40.9 33.3-48.9 71 27.8 20.1-37.0 42 15.5 10.1-23.0
Some Post-H.S. 338 58 11.4 7.9-16.2 175 52.0 43.3-60.5 63 17.0 11.9-23.7 42 19.6 13.2-28.0
College Graduate 308 37 13.3 8.8-19.6 153 43.2 35.1-51.6 69 23.0 16.5-31.2 49 20.5 13.2-30.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 149 21 12.2 6.9-20.6 86 55.8 44.1-66.9 22 14.9 8.6-24.7 20 17.1 9.4-29.3
$15,000- 24,999 237 40 11.2 7.1-17.2 124 46.0 35.6-56.7 45 27.2 17.7-39.3 28 15.7 8.9-26.2
$25,000- 34,999 139 22 18.0 10.0-30.2 70 42.4 30.1-55.7 31 22.4 13.0-35.6 16 17.3 8.9-31.0
$35,000- 49,999 161 30 16.2 10.4-24.3 66 38.7 28.9-49.5 41 30.0 20.4-41.7 24 15.1 8.7-25.0
$50,000-74,999 124 16 12.6 6.8-22.1 55 43.5 32.3-55.5 27 17.7 10.5-28.3 26 26.2 16.6-38.7
$75,000+ 124 15 12.7 6.8-22.5 63 48.0 33.7-62.7 23 12.2 6.9-20.6 23 27.1 15.0-43.9
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 71 12 20.6 11.1-35.2 35 43.8 31.2-57.3 12 12.6 6.7-22.6 12 22.9 12.5-38.3
Guilford 49 8 12.9 6.0-25.5 20 41.2 25.1-59.3 15 33.9 18.3-54.1 6 12.1 5.1-26.2
Mecklenburg 47 8 12.9 5.7-26.6 24 42.7 23.4-64.5 9 28.7 11.8-54.8 6 15.7 6.4-33.7
Orange 56 11 12.1 5.6-24.3 29 57.4 35.5-76.7 9 20.3 8.5-41.1 7 10.2 4.3-22.5
Wake 53 8 16.4 8.1-30.3 27 41.5 27.7-56.7 9 15.2 6.9-30.3 9 26.9 13.7-46.0
Chatham/Lee 37 6 17.9 7.3-37.7 15 34.8 20.6-52.4 9 25.3 12.8-43.8 7 22.0 9.8-42.5
Nash/Wilson 39 7 16.2 6.7-34.2 17 33.5 18.2-53.3 8 14.2 6.2-29.3 7 36.1 16.0-62.8
Craven/Pamlico 64 3 3.7 1.0-12.4 35 36.8 24.2-51.4 16 42.0 26.5-59.2 10 17.5 7.8-34.8
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 67 18 25.9 15.8-39.5 26 32.3 21.5-45.5 14 27.4 15.2-44.2 9 14.4 7.3-26.4
Appalachian/Wilkes 73 12 12.2 6.2-22.9 36 46.1 31.8-61.0 16 29.9 17.7-45.9 9 11.7 5.8-22.4
Franklin/Gran./Vance 47 6 7.9 3.1-18.7 27 43.6 25.3-63.8 7 13.6 5.6-29.2 7 34.9 15.5-61.1
Graham/Swain/Jackson 52 7 13.3 5.7-28.2 25 40.8 27.1-56.1 15 36.3 22.4-52.8 5 9.6 3.9-21.8
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 33 3 11.4 3.6-30.6 18 46.8 29.1-65.3 7 21.2 9.7-40.3 5 20.6 8.2-43.0
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 40 5 15.7 5.6-36.7 22 47.9 30.8-65.6 10 27.2 14.5-45.1 3 9.2 3.0-25.1
Northeast NC I 36 8 21.6 10.0-40.6 16 35.2 20.5-53.5 9 30.0 15.8-49.6 3 13.2 3.1-42.1
Northeast NC II 52 6 13.8 5.9-29.2 35 66.7 51.1-79.4 5 7.5 3.0-17.4 6 12.0 5.1-25.6
Northeastern Partnership 88 14 16.2 9.0-27.5 51 56.8 44.6-68.3 14 14.6 8.5-23.8 9 12.3 5.9-24.1
Mountain AHEC 192 33 17.2 10.7-26.5 95 49.8 35.5-64.1 35 12.4 7.4-20.1 29 20.6 12.6-31.8
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC 351 43 10.9 7.1-16.4 190 47.5 39.0-56.2 72 20.7 14.7-28.2 46 20.9 13.4-31.1
Piedmont 467 79 13.6 10.1-18.0 228 44.4 37.8-51.2 94 25.2 19.2-32.3 66 16.9 12.4-22.6
Western NC 319 56 16.5 11.3-23.5 158 46.8 36.3-57.6 61 19.4 12.6-28.7 44 17.2 11.5-25.0

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Asked only of those who have ever been assaulted 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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