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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 1,190 308 24.6 20.7-29.0 882 75.4 71.0-79.3
GENDER
Male 387 76 20.7 14.2-29.1 311 79.3 70.9-85.8
Female 803 232 27.9 23.7-32.6 571 72.1 67.4-76.3
AGE
18-24 71 13 9.3 4.2-19.3 58 90.7 80.7-95.8
25-34 207 61 28.3 18.4-41.0 146 71.7 59.0-81.6
35-44 289 79 26.7 20.1-34.5 210 73.3 65.5-79.9
45-54 317 77 29.5 21.4-39.1 240 70.5 60.9-78.6
55-64 172 47 26.5 18.0-37.2 125 73.5 62.8-82.0
65-74 80 19 17.5 9.8-29.3 61 82.5 70.7-90.2
75+ 47 11 18.8 7.8-38.9 36 81.2 61.1-92.2
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 152 40 27.0 13.9-45.9 112 73.0 54.1-86.1
H.S. or G.E.D. 363 88 17.6 13.1-23.1 275 82.4 76.9-86.9
Some Post-H.S. 358 100 27.4 21.0-34.8 258 72.6 65.2-79.0
College Graduate 316 79 30.2 22.1-39.8 237 69.8 60.2-77.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 151 50 34.4 24.4-46.0 101 65.6 54.0-75.6
$15,000- 24,999 248 67 20.8 14.4-28.9 181 79.2 71.1-85.6
$25,000- 34,999 146 29 14.5 8.4-23.8 117 85.5 76.2-91.6
$35,000- 49,999 168 35 20.1 13.0-29.7 133 79.9 70.3-87.0
$50,000-74,999 128 28 26.4 17.3-38.1 100 73.6 61.9-82.7
$75,000+ 130 44 34.5 22.2-49.4 86 65.5 50.6-77.8
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 74 19 29.0 18.4-42.4 55 71.0 57.6-81.6
Guilford 51 10 15.0 7.4-28.1 41 85.0 71.9-92.6
Mecklenburg 49 11 15.3 7.4-29.1 38 84.7 70.9-92.6
Orange 57 13 19.0 9.2-35.1 44 81.0 64.9-90.8
Wake 54 11 22.6 11.5-39.5 43 77.4 60.5-88.5
Chatham/Lee 40 11 26.1 13.9-43.4 29 73.9 56.6-86.1
Nash/Wilson 41 11 25.3 12.5-44.4 30 74.7 55.6-87.5
Craven/Pamlico 65 20 37.8 23.2-55.0 45 62.2 45.0-76.8
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 73 20 19.7 12.3-30.1 53 80.3 69.9-87.7
Appalachian/Wilkes 74 13 18.3 9.6-32.1 61 81.7 67.9-90.4
Franklin/Gran./Vance 50 9 17.5 8.1-33.8 41 82.5 66.2-91.9
Graham/Swain/Jackson 57 12 16.4 9.0-28.0 45 83.6 72.0-91.0
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 35 8 22.0 10.1-41.5 27 78.0 58.5-89.9
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 43 11 17.6 8.9-31.8 32 82.4 68.2-91.1
Northeast NC I 38 9 20.3 10.0-36.9 29 79.7 63.1-90.0
Northeast NC II 55 23 37.1 24.4-51.9 32 62.9 48.1-75.6
Northeastern Partnership 93 32 31.8 22.3-43.2 61 68.2 56.8-77.7
Mountain AHEC 203 53 38.7 24.2-55.6 150 61.3 44.4-75.8
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC 370 110 27.8 20.8-36.0 260 72.2 64.0-79.2
Piedmont 488 115 19.7 15.4-25.0 373 80.3 75.0-84.6
Western NC 332 83 33.2 22.8-45.7 249 66.8 54.3-77.2

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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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