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2003 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Violence-WHITES

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 1,190 306 25.2 21.6-29.2 884 74.8 70.8-78.4
GENDER
Male 387 151 31.6 25.1-38.9 236 68.4 61.1-74.9
Female 803 155 19.8 16.1-24.1 648 80.2 75.9-83.9
AGE
18-24 71 21 24.9 14.0-40.2 50 75.1 59.8-86.0
25-34 207 42 18.0 12.0-26.1 165 82.0 73.9-88.0
35-44 289 68 25.1 18.6-32.9 221 74.9 67.1-81.4
45-54 317 87 28.4 20.7-37.4 230 71.6 62.6-79.3
55-64 172 53 27.3 19.1-37.4 119 72.7 62.6-80.9
65-74 80 24 36.3 22.1-53.3 56 63.7 46.7-77.9
75+ 47 10 34.4 16.5-58.2 37 65.6 41.8-83.5
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 152 26 23.4 13.9-36.5 126 76.6 63.5-86.1
H.S. or G.E.D. 363 95 26.3 19.9-33.8 268 73.7 66.2-80.1
Some Post-H.S. 358 97 22.2 16.6-29.0 261 77.8 71.0-83.4
College Graduate 316 88 28.8 22.1-36.7 228 71.2 63.3-77.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 151 29 20.1 12.4-30.8 122 79.9 69.2-87.6
$15,000- 24,999 248 54 24.9 16.8-35.3 194 75.1 64.7-83.2
$25,000- 34,999 146 40 25.0 15.9-36.9 106 75.0 63.1-84.1
$35,000- 49,999 168 53 33.9 24.5-44.9 115 66.1 55.1-75.5
$50,000-74,999 128 34 30.0 20.4-41.7 94 70.0 58.3-79.6
$75,000+ 130 32 19.1 11.6-29.8 98 80.9 70.2-88.4
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 74 26 42.3 29.3-56.3 48 57.7 43.7-70.7
Guilford 51 16 25.1 14.4-40.1 35 74.9 59.9-85.6
Mecklenburg 49 11 19.6 9.6-35.9 38 80.4 64.1-90.4
Orange 57 19 52.7 31.0-73.4 38 47.3 26.6-69.0
Wake 54 16 28.7 17.2-43.9 38 71.3 56.1-82.8
Chatham/Lee 40 12 29.2 16.5-46.2 28 70.8 53.8-83.5
Nash/Wilson 41 6 27.0 9.4-56.9 35 73.0 43.1-90.6
Craven/Pamlico 65 19 30.1 16.9-47.6 46 69.9 52.4-83.1
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 73 18 24.3 15.1-36.7 55 75.7 63.3-84.9
Appalachian/Wilkes 74 20 31.9 19.6-47.4 54 68.1 52.6-80.4
Franklin/Gran./Vance 50 13 38.1 19.2-61.4 37 61.9 38.6-80.8
Graham/Swain/Jackson 57 15 26.5 15.5-41.4 42 73.5 58.6-84.5
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 35 6 16.6 7.3-33.6 29 83.4 66.4-92.7
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 43 13 32.1 18.0-50.5 30 67.9 49.5-82.0
Northeast NC I 38 10 27.7 14.7-46.1 28 72.3 53.9-85.3
Northeast NC II 55 13 32.4 19.3-49.0 42 67.6 51.0-80.7
Northeastern Partnership 93 23 30.9 20.6-43.6 70 69.1 56.4-79.4
Mountain AHEC 203 55 24.4 16.5-34.5 148 75.6 65.5-83.5
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC 370 85 23.3 17.0-31.0 285 76.7 69.0-83.0
Piedmont 488 137 25.7 20.8-31.4 351 74.3 68.6-79.2
Western NC 332 84 26.7 19.0-36.0 248 73.3 64.0-81.0

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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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